Wallace Stevens (Уоллес Стивенс)

Valley Candle


My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
The beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
Until the wind blew.

Wallace Stevens’s other poems:

  1. Nomad Exquisite
  2. Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
  3. The Plot against the Giant
  4. The Plain Sense of Things
  5. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle




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