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Oracles (1905), PDF p. 27
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ODE TO SAPPHO
As we lie and behold
All the wonders untold
That the joys of desire
In their secrets enfold,
As the pillars of fire
On the ocean of old !
O Lesbian maiden !
The delight of thy lips
Is the voice of the Spring
That the nightingales sing
Over Winter’s eclipse,
While my fingers enring
The white limbs of thy sleep
And my lips suck the lips
Of the house of my dream,
And press daintily deep,
Till the joys are supreme
That thine amorous mouth
On the home of thy love
Would exhaust the fierce drouth
Of the rivers thereof,
Till thy white body quiver
With mystic emotion
As the star-blossoms shiver
On silvery river
Rushed into the ocean !
O Lesbian maiden !
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