Some silent page abruptly flush and live, If some grey eve to certain eyes should wearĪ deeper radiance than mere light can give, The garnered days and light evasive hours,Īnd tears and tides, in life’s divine renewal, When you and I, like all things kind or cruel, Comprising a single sentence, the poem considers the immortality of the writer on the ‘silent page’, even after their bodies have returned to the earth:
This poem from the author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence is short enough to be quoted below in full.
