İngilizce
Could I pluck down Aldebaran And haze the Pleiads in your hair I could not add more burning to your beauty Or lend a starrier coldness to your air.…
William Alexander Percy, born May 14, 1885, was a writer from Greenville, Mississippi. He is most popularly known for his autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf, 1941). His poetry was also published posthumously in Collected Poems (Knopf, 1943). He died on January 21, 1942.