Love

Love, I Marvel What You Are

by Trumbull Stickney 1874–1904

From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton E. Stevenson (1912)

Love

Love, I marvel what you are!
Heaven in a pearl of dew,
Lilies hearted with a star -
All are you.

Spring along your forehead shines
And the summer blooms your breast.
Graces of autumnal vines
Round you rest.

Birds about a limpid rose
Making song and light of wing
While the warm wind sunny blows, -
So you sing.

Darling, if the little dust,
That I know is merely I,
Have availed to win your trust,
Let me die.

MLA

Stickney, Trumbull. “Love, I Marvel What You Are.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stickney/3/.

Chicago

Stickney, Trumbull. “Love, I Marvel What You Are.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stickney/3/.

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