Love
The Depths of the Grass
From Underneath the Bough (1898)
Love
Look, in the early light,
Down to the infinite
Depths at the deep grass-roots;
Where the sun shoots
In golden veins, as looking through
A dear pool one sees it do;
Where campion drifts
Its bladders, iris-brinded, through the rifts
Of rising, falling seed
That the winds lightly scour —
Down to the matted earth where over
And over again crow's-foot and clover
And pink bindweed
Dimly, steadily flower.
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Codex Note
The Fifth Book of Songs
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MLA
Field, Michael. “The Depths of the Grass.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/115/.
Chicago
Field, Michael. “The Depths of the Grass.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/115/.
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