Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MORBIDEZZA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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First Line: White girl, your flesh is lilies
Last Line: The alluring scent of lilies!
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies


White girl, your flesh is lilies
Under a frozen moon,
So still is
The rapture of your swoon
Of whiteness, snow or lilies.

Virginal in revealment,
Your bosom's wavering slope,
Concealment,
In fainting heliotrope,
Of whitest white's revealment,

Is like a bed of lilies,
A jealous-guarded row,
Whose will is
Simply chaste dreams: but oh,
The alluring scent of lilies!





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