They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.
Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is gone
Ever beyond into infinite ways.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

~ Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell (1874-1925) is best known for bringing the “Imagist” poetry movement from England to America.  The Massachusetts native’s work is characterized by its deep imagery, but its limited use of words. 

When Amy realized that her work was very similar to that of Hilda Doolittle, a British poet, she traveled to England and conducted research on the Imagist style emerging there.  She then brought back volumes of poetry in the hopes of introducing it to the States.

Amy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, one year after her death.