Native moments -- when you come upon me -- ah you are here now, Give me now libidinous joys only, Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank, To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too, I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers, The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done, I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions? O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you, I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH LAMENT FOR THE MAKARIS [WHEN HE WAS SEIK] by WILLIAM DUNBAR IN HOSPITAL: 28. DISCHARGED by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE LAW OF THE YUKON by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE AN IMITATION OF SPENCER by JOHN ARMSTRONG THE LAST MAN: SUBTERRANEAN CITY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES MAD BLAKE by WILLIAM ROSE BENET I'M DYING, COMRADE by MARY H. C. BOOTH HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 9 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |