Pygmalion in Cyprus and Other Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1880 Excerpt: ... IV. No witchery of the blood. No sigh; no sign of life. No nought but this: To have a mouth and not desire a kiss. v. O thou unsistered Grace O thou sublime perfection of a stone Thou art too womanlike to live alone. VI. Yea, thou hast Hebe's face, And Dian's drooping eyelids, when she nods, And thou art moulded like the queen of gods. VII. Oh I will have it so; And, tho' thou flout me in thy virgin pride, Mine adoration shall not be denied. VIII. My tears for thee shall flow, My pulses beat, mine accents smite the air, To curse thy nakedness for being fair. IX. O nymph O masterpiece O Sphinx of Love O Gorgon of Delight I Give me my guerdon ere we part to-night. x. Give me (as once in Greece A sylph did clip Apollo in the dark) A kiss of fire, a lay to lull the lark. XI. Aye, aye let me untwist, Here for a moment, thine entangled locks, And cling to thee as limpets cling to rocks. XII. Let me, till thou art kiss'd (And I consoled), become thy paramour, To coax the saint that erst I did adore. XIII. For lo, I am thy king, (If sculptors be the kings of marble maids) And I will have thee mine, tho' Jove upbraids. XIV. The birds, the birds of spring, The wanton birds that sing so well at night, All these do know how sweet thou art to sight. xv. Yea, there are stars in heaven That guess my thoughts, and gath'ring round the moon, Do blink at me and throb as they would swoon. XVI. And one white star of seven (I know not where she be) has left the skies, To take two lovers back to Paradise. XVII. Oh, could she meet us twain; Could she confront us here, and pity me, Or make me marble, too, to dwell with thee XVIII. Then mightst thou here remain (Thou and myself) till Love, --to make thee stoop, --Had tum'd us, amorous, to a matchless group; xix. A group of tw...