Witter Bynner. Grass-tops. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Grass-tops

By Witter Bynner


From “Sea-edge Songs” WHAT bird are you in the grass-tops?
Your poise is enough of an answer,
With your wing-tips like up-curving fingers
Of the slow-moving hands of a dancer.

And what is so nameless as beauty?—	5
Which poets, who give it a name,
Are only unnaming forever,
Content, though it go, that it came.