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Depression before Spring
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
The cock crows
But no queen rises.
The hair of my blonde
Is dazzling,
As the spittle of cows
Threading the wind.
Ho! Ho!
But ki-ki-ri-ki
Brings no rou-cou,
No rou-cou-cou.
But no queen comes
In slipper green.
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MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “Depression before Spring.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/42/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “Depression before Spring.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/42/.
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