One poem by this man concludes with the image of a flickering life being blown out like a candle while addressing a "power more near my life than life itself" which is "missed in the commonplace of miracle".  
One poem by this man concludes with the image of a flickering life being blown out like a candle while addressing a "power more near my life than life itself" which is "missed in the commonplace of miracle".  Another poem describes a figure whose "heart stood still / Like a frozen waterfall" before tossing a piece of gold to leper.  His other works include one in which Birdofredum Sawin loses an eye and an arm in war and has his letters turned into poetry by Hosea and one in which chickens led by Tityrus Griswold are marched past Phoebus Apollo.  FTP, name this American poet of The Cathedral, The Vision of Sir Launfal, The Biglow Papers, and A Fable for Critics.
One poem by this man concludes with the image of a flickering life being blown out like a candle while addressing a "power more near my life than life itself" which is "missed in the commonplace of miracle".  
James Russell Lowell