Velvet Shoes / Elinor Wylie

Velvet Shoes  (1921)  by Elinor Wylie

from Nets to Catch the Wind

Velvet Shoes

Bucharest, Romania. Cișmigiu Gardens. A boy and a girl, lovers in winter. Photo by Britchi Mirela, 2018.

Velvet Shoes

Let us walk in the white snow
      In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow,
     At a tranquil pace,
     Under veils of white lace.

I shall go shod in silk,
     And you in wool,
White as white cow's milk,
     More beautiful
     Than the breast of a gull.

We shall walk through the still town
     In a windless peace;
We shall step upon white down,
     Upon silver fleece,
     Upon softer than these.

We shall walk in velvet shoes:
     Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
     On white silence below.
     We shall walk in the snow.

See also

• Other poems by Wylie

This poem is in the public domain