Nature
Aliens
From Pictures of the Floating World (1919): Planes of Personality
Nature
The chatter of little people
Breaks on my purpose
Like the water-drops which slowly wear the rocks to powder.
And while I laugh
My spirit crumbles at their teasing touch.
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MLA
Lowell, Amy. “Aliens.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/277/.
Chicago
Lowell, Amy. “Aliens.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/277/.
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