Benedictine

Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945




The Benedictine scents and stains
the languor of your pallid lips;
My kiss shall be a bee that sips
A fainting roseleaf flushed with rains.
 
I thirst, and yet my thirst increases
With draining deep and deeper kisses;
The odour of your breath releases
Desires that dream of deeper blisses.
 
And on my lips your lips now pressed
Cling moist and close; your lips begin
Devouringly to gather in
Your kisses that my lips possessed.
 
The odour of your breath releases
Wafts of intoxicating blisses;
Yet still my thirst of you increases,
I think beneath your thirsty kisses.
 
No kisses more, this perilous day,
Or tempting, tempt me not in vain:
This day I dare not taste again
Your lips that suck my soul away!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme abba ccDa effe Dacc gxxg
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 693
Words 127
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons, was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. more…

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