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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poet's Biography First Line: Women, strange source whence joys and torture Last Line: Have clung to lover's lips five thousand years. | |||
WOMAN, strange source whence joys and torture rise, Mysterious altar where in sacrifice We hear alternate prayers and blasphemies, Say in what echo, in what air, reside Those nameless words, which through all ages bide; And though but madness, yet 'mid smiles and tears, Have clung to lover's lips five thousand years. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD TO THE MOON by ALFRED DE MUSSET CONSOLATION by ALFRED DE MUSSET FORGET ME NOT by ALFRED DE MUSSET FORTUNIO'S SONG by ALFRED DE MUSSET MY NEIGHBOUR'S CURTAINS by ALFRED DE MUSSET ON A DEAD GIRL by ALFRED DE MUSSET ON ONE DEAD by ALFRED DE MUSSET |
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