The Secret Splendour

EROS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN

IMAGES FROM EARLY MOODS

Eros Known and Unknown Images from Early Moods - Eros Known And Unknown

(In ancient times a mystical eroticism enjoined men and women to mate only under the cover of darkness.)

Lie not in the arms of day,

With gaze a-gleam

Deep in the heart of clay

 Love lies with a dream,

But the Lips that are lost by our birth,

 The Kiss that has never a name,

Are gone when the face is earth

Too clear in the sun's flame.

O lie in the arms of night,

And the darkness may wed

 Your mouth to the Mouth daylight

 Mars even in Helen's bed.

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