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Poem by Amy Lowell


The Bungler


You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles.
But when I go to warm my hands,
My clumsiness overturns the light,
And then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs.



Amy Lowell


Amy Lowell's other poems:
  1. Miscast I
  2. Thompson’s Lunch Room -- Grand Central Station
  3. Irony
  4. To Elizabeth Ward Perkins
  5. Red Slippers


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