Shameless Love
Philip Bourke Marston
1850 to 1887
Thy food my body, and my blood thy wine;
My soul, too, thine, to tread beneath thy feet:
While thus my hair is gold and my breast sweet.
Most rapturous is this shameful life of mine.
But time must come, between my life and thine,
When I must leave the heaven of this heat.
And through the cold, gray twilight go to meet
That night wherein no stars nor moon may shine.
A rose, then, withered by fierce passion's sun.
Left soiled and trampled in the public way;
A broken wine-cup emptied of delight:
Yet would I not, to triumph o'er that day,
Give up one wild, sweet moment of this night,
That finds once more love's tune of joy begun.
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