Satiety

________________________________________________
Title:     Satiety
Author: Richard Le Gallienne [More Titles by Le Gallienne]

The heart of the rose--how sweet
Its fragrance to drain,
Till the greedy brain
Reels and grows faint
With the garnered scent,
Reels as a dream on its silver feet.

Sweet thus to drain--then to sleep:
For, beware how you stay
Till the joy pass away,
And the jaded brain
Seeketh fragrance in vain,
And hates what it may not reap.

[The end]
Richard Le Gallienne's poem: Satiety

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN