Love
Love, I Marvel What You Are
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.
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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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