Somewhere I have Never Traveled

This poem by E.E. Cummings is one of the poems used in the OST of Beauty and the Beast (the TV Series).
It was read beautifully by Vincent (Ron Perlman) a mythic, noble man-beast to his Catherine (Linda Hamilton) a savvy assistant District Attorney in New York

This was interjected in its love theme The First Time I Loved Forever (lyrics below the poem). Very beautiful love song.

Somewhere i have never travelled,

gladly beyond any experience,

your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture
are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as

Spring opens(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

Or if your wish be to close me,
i andmy life will shut very beautifully,
suddenly,as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;


Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing


(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

by E.E. Cummings

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The First Time I Loved Forever

Lyrics by Melanie Safka
Music by Lee Holdridge
Sung by Lisa Angelle(From "Beauty and the Beast")


With excerpts from the poem “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Gladly” by the American poet E.E. Cummings


Poem:

“Somewhere I have never traveled
Gladly beyond any experience
Your eyes have their silence
And your most frail gesture of things
Which enclose meBut which I cannot touch
Because they are too near.



”The first time I loved forever
Was when you whispered my name
And I knew at once you loved me
For the me of who I am


The first time I loved forever
I cast all else aside
And I bid my heart to follow
Be there no more need to hide


And if wishes and dreams
Are merely for childrenA
nd if love's a tale for fools
I'll live the dream with you


Poem:

“oh, if your words be to close meI, my life will shut, very beautifully
Suddenly, as when the heart of this flower
Imagines the snow carefully, everywhere descending”.


For all my life and forever
There's a truth I will always know
When my world divides and shatters
Your love is where I'll go

Poem:

“I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens. Only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands