Where can you find the words to 'Boy in the Dusk' by Humbert Wolfe?

Answer 1

Boy in the Dusk

Humbert Wolfe

Listen!

I will make a small statue

of a boy to-day

that will half look at you

and half away.

I will give him a standing

in darkness, but

he will be pretending

that he is not.

I will give him a fiddle ,

and he will not know

that it broke in the middle

long ago

His lips will be parted

as though he smiled

with the broken-hearted

grace of a child.

And many will wonder,

and some will ask,

what I mean by my slender

"Boy in the Dusk"

Is he beauty deserted?

Vision betrayed?

Or a love that started

and he was afraid?

Is he love like a ghost

In the valley of death?

Of youth that is lost

and remembereth?

But I will not name him,

and every man

must find and acclaim him

as he can

Since from childish and small things

and the Boy in the Dusk

may flash into all things

the heart can ask

Or he may be only

a small bronze statue

of a boy, who is lonely

and half looks at you

from The Modern Muse Poems of to-day, British and American (1934)