Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер)

Souls and Rain-Drops

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.

So souls come down and wrinkle life
And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.
One might not know that souls had place
Were’t not for the wrinkles in life’s face.

Sidney Lanier’s other poems:

  1. From the Flats
  2. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University
  3. A Florida Ghost
  4. Nirvana
  5. The Wedding

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