Love

To a Golden Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town

by Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

From Modern American Poetry (1921)

Love

You are a sunrise,
If a star should rise instead of the sun.
You are a moonrise,
If a star should come in the place of the moon.
You are the Spring,
If a face should bloom instead of an apple-bough.
You are my love,
If your heart is as kind
As your young eyes now.

MLA

Lindsay, Vachel. “To a Golden Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/166/.

Chicago

Lindsay, Vachel. “To a Golden Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/166/.

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