Sotto Voce

Sotto Voce written by Walter de la Mare

The Veil and Other Poems (1921)

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               To Edward Thomas

     The haze of noon wanned silver-grey,
     The soundless mansion of the sun;
     The air made visible in his ray,
     Like molten glass from furnace run,
     Quivered o'er heat-baked turf and stone
     And the flower of the gorse burned on —
     Burned softly as gold of a child's fair hair
     Along each spiky spray, and shed
     Almond-like incense in the air
     Whereon our senses fed.

     At foot — a few sparse harebells: blue
     And still as were the friend's dark eyes
     That dwelt on mine, transfixèd through
     With sudden ecstatic surmise.
 

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