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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A FOREIGN TONGUE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poet's Biography
First Line: When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue
Last Line: When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue.
Subject(s): Love
First Line: When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue
Last Line: When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue.
Subject(s): Love
WHEN lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue.
Their words are not like ours,
But full of meanings like the throb of flowers
Yet in the earth, unborn. I think the snow
Feels the mysterious passage and the flow
Of inarticulate streams that surge below.
And it is easy learning for the young;
When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue.
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