LEVES AMORES
by: Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
- OUR kisses, and the
way you curl,
- Delicious and distracting girl,
- Into one's arms, and round about,
- Inextricably in and out,
- Twining luxuriously, as twine
- The clasping tangles of the vine;
- So loving to be loved, so gay
- And greedy for our holiday;
- Strong to embrace and long to kiss,
- And strenuous for the sharper bliss,
- A little tossing sea of sighs,
- Till the slow calm seal up your eyes.
- And then how prettily you sleep!
- You nestle close and let me keep
- My straying fingers in the nest
- Of your warm comfortable breast;
- And as I dream, lying awake,
- Of sleep well wasted for your sake,
- I feel the very pulse and heat
- Of your young life-blood beat, and beat
- With mine; and you are mine; my sweet!
"Leves Amores" is reprinted
from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1921. |
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