Love
Spring Love
From Last Songs (1918)
Love
I saw her coming through the flowery grass,
Round her swift ankles butterfly and bee
Blent loud and silent wings; I saw her pass
Where foam-bows shivered on the sunny sea.
Then came the swallow crowding up the dawn,
And cuckoo-echoes filled the dewy South.
I left my love upon the hill, alone,
My last kiss burning on her lovely mouth.
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MLA
Ledwidge, Francis. “Spring Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/111/.
Chicago
Ledwidge, Francis. “Spring Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/111/.
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