Arts & Sciences
Tea
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
When the elephant’s-ear in the park
Shrivelled in frost,
And the leaves on the paths
Ran like rats,
Your lamp-light fell
On shining pillows,
Of sea-shades and sky-shades,
Like umbrellas in Java.
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MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “Tea.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/72/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “Tea.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/72/.
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