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Enamels and Cameos and Other Poems

Theophile Gautier

9781465548207
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Library of Alexandria
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AFFINITY A PANTHEISTIC MADRIGAL On an ancient temple gleaming, Two great blocks of marble high Thrice a thousand years lay dreaming Dreams against an Attic sky. Set within one silver whiteness, Two wave-tears for Venus shed, Two fair pearls of orient brightness, Through the waste of water sped. In the Generalife’s fresh closes, By a Moorish light illumed, Two delicious, tender roses By a fountain met and bloomed. In the balm of May’s bright weather, Where the domes of Venice rise, Lighted on Love’s nest together Two pale doves from azure skies