Photograph of a painted portrait of Helen Foster Snow and poem, 1958
Dates
- Creation: 1958
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 photograph : color ; 11 x 9 cm
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Item- and file-level inventory available online.http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2219.xml
General
"Portraits of Helen Foster Snow, 1957-8, age fifty in 1957, Guilford, Ct. H, Ripley and M. Sharrer. L. bottom by Gordon Cope 1930, age 22. P. Canfield." Previously item 10045.
General
Former item number 10038.
General
Note with photograph: "In 1991 this poem was picked by the World of Poetry asking me to recite it at their annual Convention, along with "Our Little Spotted Owl. Though the fosters arrived in 1635 in Massachusetts, [missing portion] part Note: I am all English/except for 1/8th Welsh (or 1/4th as Charlottee Nott Jeremy was part English of my mother's Davis family of Carmarthen, Wales."
General
Poem with photograph: "Welsh by Helen foster Snow
What is this look in the eyes of the Welsh,
This ancient, wordless Celtic speech,
deeps upon deeps of feeling
Where thought can never reach?
No stranger can see it,
This is the dark Welsh soul
Shining for those who can see in night
Black as the Rhonda coal.
When the Welsh look at each other
A circle closes in,
For the Welsh live in a stonehenge
Where the Welsh marches begin.
Where the Welsh marches begin
And where merrie England ends,
And where tribal blood pounds like a drum
Over rainswept, haunted fens;
Where nature has been hard
And therefore men are kind,
Where Morlin's sword flashes belief
In the deep, dark Celtic mind.
By Helen Foster Snow, 148 Mungertown, Madison, Ct. 06443."
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States