Arts & Sciences
Valley Candle
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
Then beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
Until the wind blew.
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “Valley Candle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/27/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “Valley Candle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/27/.
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