Love
April
From Pictures of the Floating World (1919): Planes of Personality
Love
A bird chirped at my window this morning,
And over the sky is drawn a light net-work of clouds.
Come,
Let us go out into the open,
For my heart leaps like a fish that is ready to spawn.
I will lie under the beech-trees,
Under the grey branches of the beech-trees,
In a blueness of little squills and crocuses.
I will lie among the little squills
And be delivered of this overcharge of beauty,
And that which is born shall be a joy to you
Who love me.
Cite this poem
MLA
Lowell, Amy. “April.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/229/.
Chicago
Lowell, Amy. “April.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/229/.
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