There is a poem which begins,"I sing a song of smallness, of grandeur
in a grain, of seas that rim the minim, of dust that breeds a plain."
Can you identity author and place I can find the balance of the poem?

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Request for Question Clarification by vinods-ga on 24 Feb 2003 05:34 PST

Hello, 

Are you sure this poem is not a translation from another language? 

warm regards
vinod-ga

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Clarification of Question by donschwartz-ga on 24 Feb 2003 12:08 PST

I am pretty sure it is not a translation, though, of course, can't be
absolutely certain. It was a poem which we read when I was in high
school, about 60+ years ago and I liked it so well that I have
remembered the first verse all these years. I had the impression it
was by a woman poet, e.g., Edna St. Vincent Millay or Emily Dickenson;
over the years I have looked through all their works I have found with
no success, and had about given up when it occurred to me to try
Google. don schwartz

This line sounds a bit like Walt Whitman to me, but I haven't been
able to track it down.