Versos English David Park Barnitz Iv

English poem

Iv

by (1878–1901)

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I love you more than Death: your mournful head, Your shrouding hair, and your unfathom'd eyes, And your white body beautiful, alas, Priestess and victim in love's holy mass.... Your flesh that loves, and loving ever dies.... I could not love you more if you were dead.