The Dedalus Book of English Decadence by James Willsher

Author:James Willsher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909232846
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2013-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

Thy skin changes country and colour,

And shrivels or swells to a snakes’.

Let it brighten and bloat and grow duller,

We know it, the flames and the flakes,

Red brands on it smitten and bitten,

Round skies where a star is a stain,

And the leaves with thy litanies written,

Our Lady of Pain.

On thy bosom though many a kiss be,

There are none such as knew it of old.

Was it Alciphron once or Arisbe,

Male ringlets or feminine gold,

That thy lips met with under the statue,

Whence a look shot out sharp after thieves

From the eyes of the garden-god at you

Across the fig-leaves?

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