Love
Cyclamens
From Underneath the Bough (1898)
Love
They are terribly white:
There is snow on the ground,
And a moon on the snow at night;
The sky is cut by the winter light;
Yet I, who have all these things in ken,
Am struck to the heart by the chiselled white
Of this handful of cyclamen.
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Codex Note
The Fifth Book of Songs
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MLA
Field, Michael. “Cyclamens.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/123/.
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Field, Michael. “Cyclamens.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/123/.
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