Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FLIRT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR First Line: Beautiful boy, lend me your youth to play with Last Line: Than what I am! Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Desire; Flirtation; Youth | ||||||||
Beautiful boy, lend me your youth to play with; My heart is old. Lend me your fire to make my twilight gay with, To warm my cold; Prove that the power my look has not forsaken, That at my will My touch can quicken pulses and awaken Man's passion still. The moment that I ask do not begrudge me. I shall not stay. I shall have gone, ere you have time to judge me, My empty way. I am not worth remembrance, little brother, Even to damn. One kiss O God! if I were only other Than what I am! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN A LYNMOUTH WIDOW by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR |
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