O vermeil mouth that I have kissed in vain,
O hair that was a golden web of pain,
Woven to hold my heart! -
Since you are lost, and Love is fled from me,
With you I fain would lose Love's memory,
And let my dream depart.
O arms, O bosom, white as foam or fire,
Made warm for my delight and my desire,
Return, return to me -
Or take with you the passion and the pain,
The lonely grief, the longing all in vain,
The dream, the memory.
A Prayer
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: I love you, fire, grief, hair, heart, lonely, lost, passion, desire, white, mouth, delight, warm, hold, golden, depart, dream, memory, pain, return, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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