O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus? O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease? Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IT IS ENOUGH by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS VAIN EXCUSE by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 5. BY LITTLE AND LITTLE by PHILIP AYRES AT FONT-GEORGES by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY; DOMESTIC LEGEND OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM TWELVE SONNETS: 10. THY WHITENESS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |