Chaplaincy Review: Amy Lowell, "Generations"

Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and became a poet in the early part of the twentieth century. She is best known for using the imagist style and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry posthumously in 1926.

"Generations"
You are like the stem
Of a young beech-tree,
Straight and swaying,
Breaking out in golden leaves.
Your walk is like the blowing of a beech-tree
On a hill.
Your voice is like leaves
Softly struck upon by a South wind.
Your shadow is no shadow, but a scattered sunshine;
And at night you pull the sky down to you
And hood yourself in stars.

But I am like a great oak under a cloudy sky,
Watching a stripling beech grow up at my feet.