The Poetry Corner

A Man To A Sunflower

By Peter Courtney Quennell, Sir

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?