A woman waits for me A WOMAN waits for me she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking. Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results,...
Lire la suiteThat shadow my likeness That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But among my lovers and caroling these songs, O I never doubt whether that is...
Lire la suiteOf the terrible doubt of appearances Of the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identily beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,...
Lire la suitePoets to come Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood,native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! For you must justify me. I myself but write...
Lire la suiteO Hymen! O Hymenee ! O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus? O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease? Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me? (1860)...
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