Love
The Wheel of the Sun
From Pictures of the Floating World (1919): Planes of Personality
Love
I beg you
Hide your face from me.
Draw the tissue of your head-gear
Over your eyes.
For I am blinded by your beauty,
And my heart is strained,
And aches,
Before you.
In the street,
You spread a brightness where you walk,
And I see your lifting silks
And rejoice;
But I cannot look up to your face.
You melt my strength,
And set my knees to trembling.
Shadow yourself that I may love you,
For now it is too great a pain.
Cite this poem
MLA
Lowell, Amy. “The Wheel of the Sun.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/226/.
Chicago
Lowell, Amy. “The Wheel of the Sun.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/226/.
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