Love

Metrum Praxillae

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

From Underneath the Bough (1898)

Love

Sweet of my Poet how sweet are the eyes, the eye-lids,
Open as clear to the sun as the flowers of noon-tide;
Honeyed the light they secure in their shaded amber,
Filling the sense with desire to inhale their fragrance,
Linger, and feast at their brink as at brink of roses.

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The Third Book of Songs

MLA

Field, Michael. “Metrum Praxillae.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/92/.

Chicago

Field, Michael. “Metrum Praxillae.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/92/.

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