Religion
She Is Singing
From A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field (1923)
Religion
She is singing to thee, Domine!
Dost hear her now?
She is singing to Thee from a burning throat,
And melancholy as the owl's love-note;
She is singing to Thee from the utmost bough
Of the tree of Golgotha, where it is bare.
And the fruit torn from it that fruited there;
She is singing. . . . Canst Thou stop the strain,
The homage of such pain?
Domine, stoop down to her again!
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Codex Note
From Mystic Trees, as marked in the 1923 Selection.
Cite this poem
MLA
Field, Michael. “She Is Singing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/210/.
Chicago
Field, Michael. “She Is Singing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/210/.
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