Leves Amores

Original Text

Arthur Symons, <i>Poems</i>, 2 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1912): 116.
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1Your kisses, and the way you curl,

2Delicious and distracting girl,

3Into one's arms, and round about,

4Inextricably in and out

5Twining luxuriously, as twine

6The clasping tangles of the vine;

7So loving to be loved, so gay

8And greedy for our holiday;

9Strong to embrace and long to kiss,

10And strenuous for the sharper bliss,

11A little tossing sea of sighs,

12Till the slow calm seal up your eyes.

13And then how prettily you sleep!

14You nestle close and let me keep

15My straying fingers in the nest

16Of your warm comfortable breast;

17And as I dream, lying awake,

18Of sleep well wasted for your sake,

19I feel the very pulse and heat

20Of your young life-blood beat, and beat

21With mine; and you are mine, my sweet!

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

Data entry: Sharine Leung

RPO Edition

2012

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