IVORY AND ROSE
by: Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
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in this moonlit room, I watch you slip
- One shoulder from your dress and turn to me;
- A polished statue, flushing to the tip
- Of marble fingers gradually.
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- And, like a ripe moon out of flimsy clouds,
- Blossoms the shining fulness of your breast.
- These curves conceal, this dear perfection shrouds
- A soft, miraculous nest.
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- Your ivory body pulses as the white
- Flesh catches flame and rosy tremblings move
- Over this sanctuary of delight,
- The last asylum of our love.
"Ivory and Rose" is reprinted
from The New Adam. Louis Untermeyer. New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1920. |
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