Love
A nightingale wakes me. Think of this!
From Underneath the Bough (1898)
Love
A nightingale wakes me. Think of this!
While she sings so loud,
A woman is lying in her shroud
To whom a lover has never vowed:
O wrong in the world, and by God allowed!
Ah me, a girl to be dead, and miss
That high-and-away, that clang of pain,
The way Love trebles his sweets again,
And then feels it vain,
Jarjarral and keeps to the mocking strain!
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Codex Note
The Fifth Book of Songs
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Field, Michael. “A nightingale wakes me. Think of this!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/105/.
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Field, Michael. “A nightingale wakes me. Think of this!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/105/.
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