RONDO
by: George Moore (1852-1933)
- ID I love
thee? I only did desire
- To hold thy body unto mine,
- And smite it with strange fire
- Of kisses burning as a wine,
- And catch thy odorous hair, and twine
- It thro' my fingers amorously.
- Did I love thee?
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- Did I love thee? I only did desire
- To watch thine eyelids lilywise
- Closed down, and thy warm breath respire
- As it came through the thickening sighs,
- And speak my love in such fair guise
- Of passion's sobbing agony.
- Did I love thee?
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- Did I love thee? I only did desire
- To drink the perfume of thy blood
- In vision, and thy senses tire
- Seeing them shift from ebb to flood
- In consonant sweet interlude,
- And if love such a thing not be,
- I loved not thee.
"Rondo" is reprinted from
Flowers of Passion. George Moore. London: Provost &
Co., 1878. |
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