Love
Poppy Song
From Underneath the Bough (1898)
Love
Do you see the poppies coming?
Do you see the poppies come?
Do you see the poppies coming,
Do you hear their seedy hum? —
Large poppies of the night
In their bands of blue and white,
Poppies fading from my sight
As they come.
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Codex Note
The First Book of Songs
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Field, Michael. “Poppy Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/51/.
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Field, Michael. “Poppy Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/51/.
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