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Poem by James Elroy Flecker


The Ballad Of The Student In The South


It was no sooner than this morn
That first I found you there,
Deep in a field of southern corn
As golden as your hair.
I had read books you had not read,
Yet I was put to shame
To hear the simple words you said,
And see your eyes aflame.

Shall I forget when prying dawn
Sends me about my way,
The careless stars, the quiet lawn,
And you with whom I lay?

Your's is the beauty of the moon,
The wisdom of the sea,
Since first you tasted, sweet and soon,
Of God's forbidden tree.

Darling, a scholar's fancies sink
So faint beneath your song;
And you are right, why should we think,
We who are young and strong?

For we are simple, you and I,
We do what others do,
Linger and toil and laugh and die
And love the whole night through. 



James Elroy Flecker


James Elroy Flecker's other poems:
  1. November Eves
  2. The Second Sonnet of Bathrolaire
  3. The First Sonnet of Bathrolaire
  4. Fountains
  5. From Grenoble


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