Love

The Depths of the Grass

by Michael Field 1846–1914 (Bradley) and 1862–1913 (Cooper)

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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The Fifth Book of Songs

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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