Yvor Winters. Ballad of Men. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Ballad of Men

By Yvor Winters


LIKE long clouds
On the sky-line,
All day men come to me.
I stand and watch them sidewise,
In thought eternally.	5

And if men pass
They pass like birds
With necks craning aside.
And when they pass I know that You
Or they or I have lied.	10

And all my life
And all my sight
Are scattered like green sea;
There is death in women walking.
Thus I come unto Thee.	15