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V F you were with me, I were blind to this : Ready to drain my arteries for your kiss, Feel your grasp tighten round my ribs until You crush me in the ecstasies that kill. Being away and breathing icy air I am half lover, caring not to care ; Half-man againa mere terrestrial ball Thus breaking up a spiritual thrall Eh, my philosophers ?half-man may yet determine To get back manhood, shake the tree from bats : To change the trope a shadeget rid of vermin By using William Shakespeares Rough on Rats. VI H, love, dear love, sole queen of my…
1907 · PDF PAGE 6
…s Of a coal-black giant flower of hell ! BROWNING, Heretics Tragedy, ix. I OSE of the world ! Ay, love, in that warm hour Wet with your kisses, the bewitching bud Flamed in the starlight ; then our bed your bower Heaved like the breast of some alluring flood Whereon a man might sleep for ever, until Death should surprise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my skill To find another holier name, some flower Still red, but red with the ecstasy of blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear moth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 8
You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of care to hold himcan I tell you which ? Down goes the moonone sees the howling bitch ! The salmon you had hooked in fin and gill You reel unskilfullyhe darts away. Alas ! you devil, but you hold me still ! III FIRST and fairest of Earths darling daughters ! How could I sing you ?you have always seemed Unto the saucy driveller as he dreamed Like a rich sunset seen on tropic waters (Your eyes effulgent from a thousand slaughters Looked tenderly upon me !) all …
1907 · PDF PAGE 7
No serpent in the generous draught of wine ? Did I guess all, who guessed your life well given Up to my kiss ? Aha ! the veil is riven ! Beneath the smiling mask of a young bride Languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed ; Beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial Of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, Beneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, A tiger snarling, or a grinning ape Resolved by every devilish device Upon my murder. This I clearly see Now you arefor an ho…