Amore

I

by E.E. Cummings

consider O

woman this

my body.

for it has

5  

lain

with empty arms

upon the giddy hills

to dream of you,

approve these

10  

firm unsated

eyes

which have beheld

night's speechless carnival

the painting

15  

of the dark

with meteors

streaming from playful

immortal hands

the bursting

20  

of the wafted stars

(in time to come you shall

remember of this night amazing

ecstasies      slowly,

in the glutted

25  

heart fleet

flowerterrible

memories

shall

rise, slowly

30  

retrurn upon the

red elected lips

scaleless visions)








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