Love
To a Cuckoo Heard in Early Morning
From Underneath the Bough (1898)
Love
I hear thine iterating voice in flight,
Cuckoo, while every wood-bird's song is furled.
To rise like thee! to take my range of light.
And spread unravished echoes through the world!
✦ ✦ ✦
Codex Note
The Fifth Book of Songs
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MLA
Field, Michael. “To a Cuckoo Heard in Early Morning.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/125/.
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Field, Michael. “To a Cuckoo Heard in Early Morning.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/125/.
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