Love

The Doves

by Josephine Preston Peabody 1874–1922

From The Singing Leaves (1903)

Love

The doves fly out, the doves fly in,
Brighter than cloud above,
From thee to me, and again to thee,
Out of my heart, O Love.

My heart is troubled and hushed with wings
From the deep, beneath, above;
And the hovering flight of more white things
Than Earth hath the gladness of.

After one call they follow, all;—
Thy call to me, O Love:
Lightning out of the blue, but mine
In the likeness of the Dove.

MLA

Peabody, Josephine Preston. “The Doves.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/82/.

Chicago

Peabody, Josephine Preston. “The Doves.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/82/.

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