Love Song

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

Dear absurd child–too dear to my cost I’ve found–

God made your soul for pleasure, not for use:

It cleaves no way, but angled broad obtuse,

Impinges with a slabby-bellied sound

Full upon life, and on the rind of things

Rubs its sleek self and utters purr and snore

And all the gamut of satisfied murmurings,

Content with that, nor wishes anything more.

A happy infant, daubed to the eyes in juice

Of peaches that flush bloody at the core,

Naked you bask upon a south-sea shore,

While o’er your tumbling bosom the hair floats loose.

The wild flowers bloom and die; the heavens go round

With the song of wheeling planetary rings:

You wriggle in the sun; each moment brings

Its freight for you; in all things pleasures abound.

You taste and smile, then this for the next pass over;

And there’s no future for you and no past,

And when, absurdly, death arrives at last,

‘Twill please you awhile to kiss your latest lover.

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• Malaria by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Love Lightly by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Lost Delight by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Listen Beloved by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Lines By Taj Mahomed by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Less Than The Dust by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Lallji My Desire by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Lalila To The Ferengi Lover by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Kotri By The River by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Khristna And His Flute by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Kashmiri Song by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Kashmiri Song By Juma by Adela Florence Nicolson
• In The Early Pearly Morning by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Illusion by Adela Florence Nicolson
• I Shall Forget by Adela Florence Nicolson
• I Arise And Go Down To The River by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Hira Singhs Farewell To Burmah by Adela Florence Nicolson

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