I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,
And found my wild sick blasphemous prayer granted,
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Brooke's sexual ambiguity is illustrated in this poem.
He wishes to be intimate with Noel Oliver, but holds back because he fears that she will lose that pure virginal image.
Brooke was a Puritan at heart, and by upbringing.
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Brooke's sexual ambiguity is illustrated in this poem. He wishes to be intimate with Noel Oliver, but holds back because he fears that she will lose that pure virginal image. Brooke was a Puritan at heart, and by upbringing.