With an impassioned gravity
Appropriate to that beating breast,
That vigorous thigh, that dreaming eye?
And may the devil take the rest.
Appropriate to that beating breast,
That vigorous thigh, that dreaming eye?
And may the devil take the rest.
SHE
And must no beautiful woman be
Learned like a man?
And must no beautiful woman be
Learned like a man?
HE
Paul Veronese
And all his sacred company
Imagined bodies all their days
By the lagoon you love so much,
For proud, soft, ceremonious proof
That all must come to sight and touch;
While Michael Angelo’s Sistine roof
His ‘Morning’ and his ‘Night’ disclose
How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
Can rule by supernatural right
Yet be but sinew.
Paul Veronese
And all his sacred company
Imagined bodies all their days
By the lagoon you love so much,
For proud, soft, ceremonious proof
That all must come to sight and touch;
While Michael Angelo’s Sistine roof
His ‘Morning’ and his ‘Night’ disclose
How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
Can rule by supernatural right
Yet be but sinew.
SHE
I have heard said
There is great danger in the body.
I have heard said
There is great danger in the body.
HE
Did God in portioning wine and bread
Give man His thought or His mere body?
Did God in portioning wine and bread
Give man His thought or His mere body?
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