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comicallyvintage: He’s Underlined My Favorite Sonnet! Sonnet 4Ah when you drift hover before you kissMore my mouth yours now, lips grow more to mineTeeth click, suddenly your tongue like a mulled wineSlides fire, —- I wonder what the point of life is.Do, down this night when I adore you, Lise,So I forsake the blest assistant shineOf deep-laid maps I made for summits, swine-enchanted lover, loafing in the abyss?Loaf hardly, while my nerves dance, while the galemoans like your hair down here.  But I lie still,Strengthless and smiling under a maenad rule.Whose limbs worked once, whose imagination’s grailMany or some would nourish, must now I fillMy strength with desire, my cup with your tongue,      no more Melpomene’s, but Erato’s fool? . . JOHN BERRYMAN

comicallyvintage:

He’s Underlined My Favorite Sonnet!


Sonnet 4

Ah when you drift hover before you kiss
More my mouth yours now, lips grow more to mine
Teeth click, suddenly your tongue like a mulled wine
Slides fire, —- I wonder what the point of life is.
Do, down this night when I adore you, Lise,
So I forsake the blest assistant shine
Of deep-laid maps I made for summits, swine-
enchanted lover, loafing in the abyss?

Loaf hardly, while my nerves dance, while the gale
moans like your hair down here.  But I lie still,
Strengthless and smiling under a maenad rule.
Whose limbs worked once, whose imagination’s grail
Many or some would nourish, must now I fill
My strength with desire, my cup with your tongue,
      no more Melpomene’s, but Erato’s fool? . .

JOHN BERRYMAN

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