You are ice and fire,
The touch of you burns my hands like snow.
You are cold and flame.
You are the crimson of amaryllis,
The silver of moon-touched magnolias.
When I am with you,
My heart is a frozen pond
Gleaming with agitated torches.
 

Poems by This Author

A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell
They have watered the street,
A Lover by Amy Lowell
If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly
Astigmatism by Amy Lowell
The Poet took his walking-stick
Autumn by Amy Lowell
They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia
Carrefour by Amy Lowell
O You
Pyrotechnics by Amy Lowell
Our meeting was like the upward swish of a rocket
Red Slippers by Amy Lowell
Red slippers in a shop-window; and outside in the street
Spring Day [Bath] by Amy Lowell
The day is fresh-washed and fair
Summer by Amy Lowell
Some men there are who find in nature all
Superstition by Amy Lowell
I have painted a picture of a ghost
The Congressional Library [excerpt] by Amy Lowell
Where else in all America are we so symbolized
The Letter by Amy Lowell
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
The Taxi by Amy Lowell
When I go away from you
Vernal Equinox by Amy Lowell
The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies between me and my book

Further Reading

Poems About Difficult Love
A Love Song
by William Carlos Williams
Amorosa Erranza
by Julian T. Brolaski
Anna, Thy Charms
by Robert Burns
Be Near Me
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Caboose Thoughts
by Carl Sandburg
Demon and The Dove
by Miguel Murphy
Designer Kisses
by Major Jackson
Dregs
by César Vallejo
Enemies
by Dante Micheaux
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder
by A. E. Housman
How Much?
by Carl Sandburg
I Am Not Yours
by Sara Teasdale
I Do Not Love Thee
by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
I have lived in your face
by Jean Valentine
I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm A Fool To Love You
by Cornelius Eady
Last Words to Miriam
by D. H. Lawrence
Love
by Katy Lederer
Love in Fantastique Triumph satt
by Aphra Behn
Love's Secret
by William Blake
Loving and Beloved
by Sir John Suckling
My Love Sent Me a List
by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Never give all the heart
by W. B. Yeats
Not
by Sophie Cabot Black
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
Our Bed Is Also Green
by Joshua Bell
Passer Mortuus Est
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pericardium
by Joanna Klink
Poetry Anonymous
by Prageeta Sharma
Red and Blue Planets
by Joni Wallace
Sometimes with One I Love
by Walt Whitman
Song of Myself, XI
by Walt Whitman
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?]
by Petrarch
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]
by Petrarch
Talking to Patrizia
by Kenneth Koch
The Barrier
by Claude McKay
The Heart Breaking
by Abraham Cowley
The More Loving One
by W. H. Auden
The Peace That So Lovingly Descends
by Noelle Kocot
They Romp with Wooly Canines
by Patricia Smith
This Deepening Takes Place Again
by Emily Kendal Frey
To A Sea-Cliff
by Thomas Hardy
To His Coy Love
by Michael Drayton
What Do I Care
by Sara Teasdale
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
by Walt Whitman
Witch-Wife
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]
by Katie Ford