O HYMEN! O hymenee!
Why do you tantalize me thus?
O why sting me for a swift moment only?
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An elegy that clearly hits the nerve. Walt is a great imagist. One of the greatest American poets of all times.
Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease? Is it because, if you continued beyond the swift moment, you would soon certainly kill me?
when one love there is a little bit of dying, dying to selfishness
NICE POEM, A WONDERFUL WAY OF WRITING.