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 "id": "david-park-barnitz/poppy-song",
 "title": "Poppy Song",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 22,
 "container": "Part I",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "sources": [
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "O poppy-buds, that in the golden air",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wave heavy hanging censers of delight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me an anodyne for my despair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O crimson poppy-blooms, O golden blight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O careless drunken heavy poppy-flowers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make that the day for me be as the night.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me to lie down in your drowsy bowers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That having breathed of your rich perfume,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My soul may have all-rest through all the hours;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So shall I lie within my little room,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While the poor tyrants of the world go by,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Restfully shrouded in your velvet gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beneath the wide face of the cloudless sky.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "—Even so, when thou shalt eat of us,",
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   {
    "text": "Even so, thy life shall be a sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "Empty of all things fierce and piteous;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even as a sailor on the tossing deep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hears vaguely the vain tumult on the shore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shouts of the fighters, songs of them that reap.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Life is all vanity, a loathed sore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A scatter’d dust, a vain and soiled heap.⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thou shalt have golden rest forevermore.",
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   {
    "text": "O poppy-flowers, golden, sleepy, sweet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O yellow tawny fading blooms of gold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give unto me your holy fruit to eat;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make me forget all things above the mould;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make me forget that dolorous vow that sears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not to be lesser than the great of old;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make me forget the heavy old dead years,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all that lives from out the writhing past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Old struggles, dead ambitions, buried tears;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that white face that I shall see the last.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "—Sweet is forgetfulness, most sweet to lie,",
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   {
    "text": "Sunken from sorrow, in our pleasant vale,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where but the sun shines, and the clouds go by;",
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   {
    "text": "Even as to them that through deep waters sail",
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   {
    "text": "The toiling shore fades and becomes a sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And evermore behind the billows fail.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet to forget the death-like things that were,",
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   {
    "text": "Green pastures where the clouds sail by on high,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dead sundawns over pathless prairies fair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And suns long sunk beneath the wall of the sky.",
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   {
    "text": "Under the sun my spirit lies alone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drunken with slumber and mild exstasy⁠ ⁠…",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sleep, sweet sleep, long unto mine eyes unknown.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drops on me as ripe fruit drops from a tree;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My dim eyes see the valley poppy-strown;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The clouds fade and the gold sun over me,",
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   {
    "text": "And the world’s murmur sounds within my lair",
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   {
    "text": "Like the far tossing of some infinite sea;",
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   {
    "text": "Within the heavy slumber-laden air",
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   {
    "text": "All fades, all fades, and grows afar afar,",
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   {
    "text": "Leaving my soul alone, empty of care,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even as happy long-dead bodies are.",
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   {
    "text": "Even so I slumber in my tireless close,",
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   {
    "text": "While the whole world fades like a fading star,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dies like the perfume of a dying rose.",
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