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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE AND SUSPICION, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography
First Line: You squeeze me in your arms the while your eyes
Last Line: Leaves but love's perfect lustre on your brow!
First Line: You squeeze me in your arms the while your eyes
Last Line: Leaves but love's perfect lustre on your brow!
You squeeze me in your arms the while your eyes
Hungrily seek, fierce woman, on my face
Close-hid deceits, brief mocking smiles, to trace:
For you have guessed that you have lost your prize.
But I care not, for all my enterprise
Is sending such thoughts through your brain achase;
For thereby do I gain the crowning grace
Of all your splendid savage witcheries.
Seize me and keep me ever for your own,
So that my love flames in you like a star:
But if you dim its ray, be sure some one
Shall lure me from your side, and out afar:
This shadowy terror I set on you now,
Leaves but love's perfect lustre on your brow!
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