Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DIANA, by HEINRICH HEINE


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DIANA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These fair limbs, of size so massive
Last Line: Of giovanni of that city.
Subject(s): Fear; Murder


1.

THESE fair limbs, of size so massive,
Of colossal womanhood,
Now are, in a yielding mood,
Under my embraces passive.

Had I, with unbridled passion,
Trusting in my strength drawn near,
I had soon had cause for fear!
She had thrashed me in strange fashion.

How her bosom, neck, throat charm me
(Higher I can scarcely see);
Ere alone l'd with her be,
Pray I that she may not harm me.

2.

'TWAS in the Bay of Biscay
That she first saw the light;
Two kittens in the cradle
She squeezed to death outright.

Across the Pyrenees she
With feet uncover'd ran;
Then for her size gigantic
Was shown at Perpignan.

She's now the grandest dame in
The Faubourg Saint-Denis,
Where unto small Sir William
Some thousand pounds costs she.

3.

OFTEN when I am with thee,
Much-beloved and noble lady,
The remembrance steals o'er me
Of Bologna's market shady.

There a massive fount doth stand --
'Tis the Giants' Fountain pretty --
With a Neptune, by the hand
Of Giovanni of that city.





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