Love

A girl

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

From Underneath the Bough (1898)

Love

A girl,
Her soul, a deep-wave pearl
Dim, lucent of all lovely mysteries;
A face flowered for heart's ease,
A brow's grace soft as seas
Seen through faint forest-trees:
A mouth, the lips apart.
Like aspen-leaflets trembling in the breeze
From her tempestuous heart.
Such: and our souls so knit,
I leave a page half-writ —
The work begun
Will be to heaven's conception done,
If she come to it.

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The Third Book of Songs

MLA

Field, Michael. “A girl.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/86/.

Chicago

Field, Michael. “A girl.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/86/.

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