Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Voyage à lInfini
By Walter Conrad Arensberg
T
Is like a song with an accompaniment
Imaginary.
Across the lake to the shadow of the willows,
It is accompanied by an image—
As by Debussy’s
“Reflets dans l’eau.”
Reflects
Upon the solitary water—breast to breast
With the duplicity:
“The other one!”
O visionary wedding! O stateliness of the procession!
It is accompanied by the image of itself
Alone.
The lake is a wide silence,
Without imagination.