"Decade" by Amy Lowell.

"Decade" by 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. Amy Lowell produced the majority of her poems after her acquaintance with the actress Ada Russell, a widow eleven years older than Lowell, with whom …

…multifarious bond. Amy Lowell manages to express a deeply sensuous love in simple and straightforward diction and syntax. She avoids complexity in the words she uses, thus depicting love simple in its expressions and grandeur. She lets her sexuality and sensuality be expressed using the image of a "red wine" which "burnt her mouth with its sweetness" and ends her poem with a statement which confirms the deep love she feels for her valuable companion.