每天一诗 英语诗歌

Russell Green

I saw the stars against the summer night

still trembling as they trembled when the light

first fell upon them from the further world.

I could not bend my proud humanity

to kneel before the cold immensity,

I,who had youth and love,i,who could know,——

they,——flotsam on the ethereal ebb and flow,

dead things unmoved by immaterial fire

of hope and anguish and divine desire.

they were not more omnipotent than i,

they could not see and dream and change and die.

I could not bow before infinity,

the silent grandeur could not conquer me.