A SAPPHIC DREAM

by: George Moore (1852-1933)

      LOVE the luminous poison of the moon,
      The silence of illimitable seas,
      Vast night, and all her myriad mysteries,
      Perfumes that make the burdened senses swoon
       
      And weaken will, large snakes who oscillate
      Like lovely girls, immense exotic flowers,
      And cats who purr through silk-enfestooned bowers
      Where white-limbed women sleep in sumptuous state.
       
      My soul e'er dreams, in such a dream as this is,
      Visions of perfume, moonlight and the blisses
      Of sexless love, and strange unreached kisses.

"A Sapphic Dream" is reprinted from Flowers of Passion. George Moore. London: Provost & Co., 1878.

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