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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMAGES OF DESIRE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not even scorn your lovers | |||
I do not even scorn your lovers- They clasped an image of you, a cloud, Not the whole life of you that's mine. I do not even pity my mistresses- Such a poor shadow of desire Their half-warm passion drew from me. You are a delicate Arab mare For whom there is but one rider; I am a sea that takes joyfully Only one straight ship upon my breast. Like a dark princess whose beauty Many have sung, you wear me, The one jewel that is warmed by your breast. As a soldier weary of fighting Turns for peace to some golden city, So do I turn to you, beloved. The scarlet that stains your lips and breast-points- Let it be my blood that dyes them, My very blood so gladly yielded. Let it be your flesh and only your flesh That fashions for me a child Whose beauty shall be only less than yours. Everlasting as the sea round the islands I cry at your door for love; Everlasting as the unchangeable sea I cry the infinite for space to love you. Earth of the earth, body of the earth, Flesh of our mother, life of all things, A flower, a bird, a rock, a tree, Thus I love you, sister and lover, Would that we had one mother indeed That we might be bound closer by shame. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM by RICHARD ALDINGTON IN THE TRENCHES by RICHARD ALDINGTON VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 1 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 2 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 3 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 4 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 5 by RICHARD ALDINGTON IMAGES: 6 by RICHARD ALDINGTON |
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