RONDO

by: George Moore (1852-1933)

      ID I love thee? I only did desire
      To hold thy body unto mine,
      And smite it with strange fire
      Of kisses burning as a wine,
      And catch thy odorous hair, and twine
      It thro' my fingers amorously.
      Did I love thee?
       
      Did I love thee? I only did desire
      To watch thine eyelids lilywise
      Closed down, and thy warm breath respire
      As it came through the thickening sighs,
      And speak my love in such fair guise
      Of passion's sobbing agony.
      Did I love thee?
       
      Did I love thee? I only did desire
      To drink the perfume of thy blood
      In vision, and thy senses tire
      Seeing them shift from ebb to flood
      In consonant sweet interlude,
      And if love such a thing not be,
      I loved not thee.

"Rondo" is reprinted from Flowers of Passion. George Moore. London: Provost & Co., 1878.

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