Living

Campus Sonnets 3: May Morning

by Stephen Vincent Benét 1898–1943

From Young Adventure (1918)

Living

I lie stretched out upon the window-seat
And doze, and read a page or two, and doze,
And feel the air like water on me close,
Great waves of sunny air that lip and beat
With a small noise, monotonous and sweet,
Against the window -- and the scent of cool,
Frail flowers by some brown and dew-drenched pool
Possesses me from drowsy head to feet.

This is the time of all-sufficing laughter
At idiotic things some one has done,
And there is neither past nor vague hereafter.
And all your body stretches in the sun
And drinks the light in like a liquid thing;
Filled with the divine languor of late spring.

MLA

Benét, Stephen Vincent. “Campus Sonnets 3: May Morning.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/benet/10/.

Chicago

Benét, Stephen Vincent. “Campus Sonnets 3: May Morning.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/benet/10/.

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