Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BELINDA, by JOHANN LUDWIG WILHELM GLEIM


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BELINDA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last seduction of her dress
Last Line: The fatal venom be your youth's temptation.


THE last seduction of her dress
Was loosed. Behold! Belinda's maiden treasure
Naked and lovely to the breezes' pleasure,
Refiguring Ida's wantonness.

Ah me, from that divine caress,
My sudden joy, my tribulation's leisure,
From all that secret loveliness,
My term of Eden's torment must I measure.

Weak with desire, bemused, (ah, woe to hear!)
In one bright summer noon of admiration
I took the wage of many a wrathful year.
You that a little care for your salvation,
Never (alas! I tell you) let the dear
The fatal venom be your youth's temptation.





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