Love

Open Door

by Countee Cullen 1903–1946

From Copper Sun (1927)

Love

Once I held my heart’s door full wide
That love might enter in;
I saw him pass in peacock pride,
Nor cast a glance within.

The door stands wide by night and day,
The lamp burns on though dim,
Lest some lone traveler lose his way.
(Love thinks it burns for him.)

MLA

Cullen, Countee. “Open Door.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/172/.

Chicago

Cullen, Countee. “Open Door.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/172/.

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