MYSTERY
by: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
- OW I am
all
- One bowl of kisses,
- Such as the tall
- Slim votaresses
- Of Egypt filled
- For a God's excesses.
-
- I lift to you
- My bowl of kisses,
- And through the temple's
- Blue recesses
- Cry out to you
- In wild caresses.
-
- And to my lips'
- Bright crimson rim
- The passion slips,
- And down my slim
- White body drips
- The shining hymn.
-
- And still before
- The altar I
- Exult the bowl
- Brimful, and cry
- To you to stoop
- And drink, Most High.
-
- Oh drink me up
- That I may be
- Within your cup
- Like a mystery,
- Like wine that is still
- In ecstasy.
-
- Glimmering still
- In ecstasy,
- Commingled wines
- Of you and me
- In one fulfil
- The mystery.
"Mystery" is reprinted
from Amores: Poems. D.H. Lawrence. New York: B.W. Huebsch,
1916. |
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