DOLORES
Lithe-armed, and with satin-soft shouldersAs white as the cream-crested wave;With a gaze dazing every beholder’s,She holds every gazer a slave:Her hair, a fair haze, is outfloatedAnd flared in the air like a flame;Bare-breasted, bare-browed and bare-throated—Too smooth for the soothliest name.She wiles you with wine, and wrings for youRipe juices of citron and grape;She lifts up her lute and sings for youTill the soul of you seeks no escape;And you revel and reel with mad laughter,And fall at her feet, at her beck,And the scar of her sandal thereafterYou wear like a gyve round your neck.
Lithe-armed, and with satin-soft shouldersAs white as the cream-crested wave;With a gaze dazing every beholder’s,She holds every gazer a slave:Her hair, a fair haze, is outfloatedAnd flared in the air like a flame;Bare-breasted, bare-browed and bare-throated—Too smooth for the soothliest name.She wiles you with wine, and wrings for youRipe juices of citron and grape;She lifts up her lute and sings for youTill the soul of you seeks no escape;And you revel and reel with mad laughter,And fall at her feet, at her beck,And the scar of her sandal thereafterYou wear like a gyve round your neck.
Lithe-armed, and with satin-soft shouldersAs white as the cream-crested wave;With a gaze dazing every beholder’s,She holds every gazer a slave:Her hair, a fair haze, is outfloatedAnd flared in the air like a flame;Bare-breasted, bare-browed and bare-throated—Too smooth for the soothliest name.
Lithe-armed, and with satin-soft shoulders
As white as the cream-crested wave;
With a gaze dazing every beholder’s,
She holds every gazer a slave:
Her hair, a fair haze, is outfloated
And flared in the air like a flame;
Bare-breasted, bare-browed and bare-throated—
Too smooth for the soothliest name.
She wiles you with wine, and wrings for youRipe juices of citron and grape;She lifts up her lute and sings for youTill the soul of you seeks no escape;And you revel and reel with mad laughter,And fall at her feet, at her beck,And the scar of her sandal thereafterYou wear like a gyve round your neck.
She wiles you with wine, and wrings for you
Ripe juices of citron and grape;
She lifts up her lute and sings for you
Till the soul of you seeks no escape;
And you revel and reel with mad laughter,
And fall at her feet, at her beck,
And the scar of her sandal thereafter
You wear like a gyve round your neck.