Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE AWAKENER, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS


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LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE AWAKENER, by                    
First Line: Love, through the stars, swoop'd down the violet sky
Last Line: And sleep for ever banish'd from his bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Sleep


Love, through the stars, swoop'd down the violet sky;
His flaming feet caught at a fountain-brim;
And crouching there, sweet taper limb to limb,
He stood his rebeck on his moonlit thigh,
Toss'd back his pinions, wreath'd in pansied rim,
Shaking off silver, and stroked out thereby
His twinkling strings to swooning harmony;
And tinseling sprays the fountain spill'd on him.

Anear, through a low window left unclose,
The sound stole on through breathing trails of rose,
And kiss'd the sleeping courtier's comely head;
Who, starting up, felt all his soul on fire,
Rack'd and rent back by some sad strange desire,
And sleep for ever banish'd from his bed.





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