A POET

He has a voice so exquisite

You can hardly hear it at all:

Tragedy's there and there is wit,

Both faint as a leaf's fall.

His feet pass hardly like human feet,

Five-toed and leathern-shod,

But more with the sound of bended wheat,

Swayed by the skirts of God.

His eyes are a wistful and grey sea,

Till a song stir his blood.

Then are they flowers that suddenly

Open from the pent bud.

But when at the shutting of the day,

He sings faint songs for me,

Then is it very hard to say

If the wind sings or he.

Sorrow of War: Poems · 第 47 / 89 题