Mythology & Folklore

Penetration

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

From A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field (1923)

Mythology & Folklore

(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.

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From Wild Honey, as marked in the 1923 Selection.

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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