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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORGIE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poet's Biography
First Line: On nights like this, when bayou and lagoon
Last Line: And dance me downward where my doom is sealed.
First Line: On nights like this, when bayou and lagoon
Last Line: And dance me downward where my doom is sealed.
ON nights like this, when bayou and lagoon
Dream in the moonlight's mystic radiance,
I seem to walk like one deep in a trance
With old-world myths born of the mist and moon.
Lascivious eyes and mouths of sensual rose
Smile into mine; and breasts of luring light,
And tresses streaming golden to the night,
Persuade me onward where the forest glows.
And then it seems along the haunted hills
There falls a flutter as of beautiful feet,
As if tempestuous troops of Mænads meet
To drain deep bowls and shout and have their wills.
And then I feel her limbs will be revealed
Like some great snow-white moth among the trees;
Her vampire beauty, waiting there to seize
And dance me downward where my doom is sealed.
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