Memory

How I loved you in your sleep,

With the starlight on your hair!

The touch of your lips was sweet,

Aziza whom I adore,

As I lay at your slender feet,

And against their soft palms pressed,

I fitted my face to rest.

As winds blow over the sea

From Citron gardens ashore,

Came, through your scented hair,

The breeze of the night to me.

My lips grew arid and dry,

My nerves were tense,

Though your beauty soothe the eye

It maddens the sense.

Every curve of that beauty is known to me,

Every tint of that delicate roseleaf skin,

And these are printed on ever atom of me,

Burnt in on every fibre until I die.

And for this, my sin,

I doubt if ever, though dust I be,

The dust will lose the desire,

The torment and hidden fire,

Of my passionate love for you.

Aziza whom I adore,

My dust will be full of your beauty, as is the blue

And infinite ocean full of the azure sky.

In the light that waxed and waned

Playing about your slumber in silver bars,

As the palm trees swung their feathery fronds athwart the stars,

How quiet and young you were,

Pale as the Champa flowers, violet veined,

That, sweet and fading, lay in your loosened hair.

How sweet you were in your sleep,

With the starlight on your hair!

Your throat thrown backwards, bare,

And touched with circling moonbeams, silver white

On the couch’s sombre shade.

O Aziza my one delight,

When Youth’s passionate pulses fade,

And his golden heart beats slow,

When across the infinite sky

I see the roseate glow

Of my last, last sunset flare,

I shall send my thoughts to this night

And remember you as I die,

The one thing, among all the things of this earth, found fair.

How sweet you were in your sleep,

With the starlight, silver and sable, across your hair!

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Poems in English 

• The First Sam Hazo at the Last by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• The Cleaving by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• Carol of a Father by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Psyche by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Constancy To An Ideal Object by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Tombless Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Cologne by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• About The Nightingale by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Fears In Solitude by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Christabel by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Epigram by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Phantom by Samuel Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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