Amy Lowell











 from Twenty-Four Hokku on a Modern Theme


I

Again the larkspur,
Heavenly blue in my garden.
They, at least, unchanged.

II

How have I hurt you?
You look at me with pale eyes.
But these are my tears.

III

Morning and evening—
Yet for us once long ago
Was no division.


D. H. Lawrence

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