Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 6. THE KISS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What smouldering senses in death's sick delay Last Line: Fire within fire, desire in deity. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Kisses | ||||||||
WHAT smouldering senses in death's sick delay Or seizure of malign vicissitude Can rob this body of honour, or denude This soul of wedding-raiment worn to-day? For lo! even now my lady's lips did play With these my lips such consonant interlude As laurelled Orpheus longed for when he wooed The half-drawn hungering face with that last lay. I was a child beneath her touch,--a man When breast to breast we clung, even I and she,-- A spirit when her spirit looked through me,-- A god when all our life-breath met to fan Our life-blood, till love's emulous ardors ran, Fire within fire, desire in deity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 31 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX PROMISES, PROMISES by PAUL MULDOON THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT by NORMAN DUBIE PENDULUM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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