A Decade / Amy Lowell

       
A Decade

When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Now you are like morning bread,
Smooth and pleasant.
I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour,
But I am completely nourished.

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
from Pictures of the Floating World, 1919

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]

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"At Night" read by Guy Mulinder. Courtesy YouTube.