Nature
July Midnight
From Pictures of the Floating World (1919): Planes of Personality
Nature
Fireflies flicker in the tops of trees,
Flicker in the lower branches,
Skim along the ground.
Over the moon-white lilies
Is a flashing and ceasing of small, lemon-green stars.
As you lean against me,
Moon-white,
The air all about you
Is slit, and pricked, and pointed with sparkles of lemon-green flame
Starting out of a background of vague, blue trees.
Cite this poem
MLA
Lowell, Amy. “July Midnight.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/219/.
Chicago
Lowell, Amy. “July Midnight.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/219/.
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