I grow so weary, someway, of all things
That love and loving have vouchsafed to me,
Since now all dreamed-of sweets of ecstasy
Am I possessed of: The caress that clings—
The lips that mix with mine with murmurings
No language may interpret, and the free,
Unfettered brood of kisses, hungrily
Feasting in swarms on honeyed blossomings
Of passion's fullest...
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The Thrill came slowly like a Boom for
Centuries delayed
It's fitness growing like the Flood
In sumptuous solitude —
The desolation only missed
While Rapture changed it's Dress
And stood arrayed before the Change
In ravished Holiness —