LEVES AMORES

by: Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

      YourOUR 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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