A Man To A Sunflower
Peter Courtney Quennell 1905 – 1993
See, I have bent thee by thy saffron hair
O most strange masker,
Towards my face, thy face so full of eyes
O almost legendary monster,
Thee of the saffron, circling hair I bend,
Bend by my fingers knotted in thy hair
Hair like broad flames.
So, shall I swear by beech-husk, spindleberry,
To break thee, saffron hair and peering eye,
To have the mastery?
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Submitted by halel on July 15, 2020
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 65 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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