Love

Cyclamens

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

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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The Fifth Book of Songs

MLA

Field, Michael. “Cyclamens.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/123/.

Chicago

Field, Michael. “Cyclamens.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/123/.

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