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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• Fancy poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Endymion: Book IV poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Endymion: Book III poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Endymion: Book II poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
• When the Assault Was Intended to the City poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Upon The Circumcision poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To the Same poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To The Nightingale poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To Mr. Lawrence poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems by John Milton

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