Love
The Sylph
From Last Songs (1918)
LoveNature
I saw you and I named a flower
That lights with blue a woodland space,
I named a bird of the red hour
And a hidden fairy place.
And then I saw you not, and knew
Dead leaves were whirling down the mist,
And something lost was crying through
An evening of amethyst.
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Codex Note
The speaker saw a woman and named a blue flower, a bird and a hidden fairy place for her. When she was gone, dead leaves whirled in the mist.
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MLA
Ledwidge, Francis. “The Sylph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/57/.
Chicago
Ledwidge, Francis. “The Sylph.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/57/.
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