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.
Credit
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on June 25, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.
About this Poem
“A Decade” appeared in Pictures of the Floating World (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921).
Author
Amy Lowell
Born in 1874, Amy Lowell was deeply interested in and influenced by the Imagist movement and she received the Pulitzer Prize for her collection What’s O’Clock.
Date Published
01/01/1921