We listen, wind from where, And two have heard The step across the field That went from us unseen, The word that scarcely stirred Along the corn's stiff green, Or in their hair who bend among the corn. And two have understood: Though the great sails untorn Of high September bear, Toward harbour earth and yield, The amber-dwindled mood Is come, the bronze, the blue, And every hue entering its solitude. And all about we seize, Of all that summers knew Or autumns reconciled, Sense of some utmost thing, Some clasp unransoming, Proffered the destinies, And on the face recalled to its grave love, Piercing on each, one air Has touched them, earth and child; And fairest here, Fair now, whom love has sealed; But fair unseen there move Before us unbeguiled The equal feet of love, And the blind hands bearing the luck of the year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 9 by EZRA POUND A WINTER BLUEJAY by SARA TEASDALE TO MARK ANTHONY IN HEAVEN by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE SAD SHEPHERD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE BRIDE AND GROOM by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS |