Collected Poems of John Holmes
Holmes, John A., Jr.
2002
Pan
Pan
We had run into the forest, happy, careless; We had lost the little path and found a grove, And or laughter filled the silence of the woodland. Then a band of scarlet ivy leaves you wove For my forehead, saying lightly I was Pan, And you a modern wood-nymph. In that nook You had danced among the leaves, e'er we ran Across the fields near the forest to a brook. There we stopped, and breathless we looked down At our reflections on the water from the blue. For an instant I thought truly it was Pan, Will it cleared, and Pan was I, and you were you. | |