Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT, by EDWARD CARPENTER


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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, proud curve-lipped youth, with brown sensitive face
Last Line: And I remain gazing into them.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


YOU, proud curve-lipped youth, with brown sensitive face,
Why, suddenly, as you sat there on the grass, did you turn full upon me
those twin black eyes of yours,
With gaze so absorbing so intense, I a strong man trembled and was faint?
Why in a moment between me and you in the full summer afternoon did Love
sweep—leading after it in procession across the lawn and the flowers and
under the waving trees huge dusky shadows of Death and the other world?
I know not.
Solemn and dewy-passionate, yet burning clear and stedfast at the last,
Through the long night those eyes of yours, dear, remain to me—
And I remain gazing into them.





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