Mythology & Folklore
Penetration
From A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field (1923)
(Syrinx to Pan)
I love thee: never dream that I am dumb:
By day, by night, my tongue besiegeth thee.
As a bat's voice, set in too fine a key.
Too tender in its circumstance to come
To ears beset by havoc and harsh hum
Of the arraigning world; yet secretly
I may attain: lo, even a dead bee
Dropt sudden from thy open hand by some
Too careless wind is laid among thy flowers.
Dear to thee as the bees that sing and roam:
Thou watchest when the angry moon drops foam:
Thou answerest the faun's soft-footed stare:
No influence, but thou feelest it is there.
And drawest it profound, into thy hours.
Codex Note
From Wild Honey, as marked in the 1923 Selection.
Cite this poem
MLA
Field, Michael. “Penetration.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/157/.
Chicago
Field, Michael. “Penetration.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/157/.
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