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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TEPIDARIUM, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrrh sweetens all their supple limbs; they muse
Last Line: Sleek and untrammelled round her bust of bronze.
Subject(s): Statues
First Line: Myrrh sweetens all their supple limbs; they muse
Last Line: Sleek and untrammelled round her bust of bronze.
Subject(s): Statues
MYRRH sweetens all their supple limbs; they muse
With flesh not loathful of the chilly flaws.
A brazier mid the steady wafture draws
Now flame now shadow o'er their pallid hues.
On cushioned beds the crimson swathings fuse
With marble and amber of fair limbs at pause,
Upright or bending thro' the filmy gauze
That shows the suave lines of their pliant thews.
An Asian woman, bare amid the billow
Of the warm air-stream, like a writhen willow
Lifts nerveless arms and shivers in the wind;
Whereat the Ausonian maidens pale as swans,
Do marvel at the swarthy tresses twined
Sleek and untrammelled round her bust of bronze.
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