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June 25, 2022 

A Decade
Amy Lowell

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.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on June 25, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“A Decade” appeared in Pictures of the Floating World (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921).
Amy Lowell, born on February 9, 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts, was a poet, critic, and editor affiliated with the Imagist movement. Her books include What’s O’Clock (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), which posthumously won her the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She died on May 12, 1925.
Pictures of the Floating World
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921)
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