<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340457" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bayadere</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays <br>More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid <br>By the light veils they burned and blushed amid, <br>Skilled to provoke in soft, lascivious ways, <br>And there was invitation in her voice <br>And laughing lips and wonderful dark eyes, <br>As though above the gates of Paradise <br>Fair verses bade, Be welcome and rejoice! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O'er rugs where mottled blue and green and red <br>Blent in the patterns of the Orient loom, <br>Like a bright butterfly from bloom to bloom, <br>She floated with delicious arms outspread. <br>There was no pose she took, no move she made, <br>But all the feverous, love-envenomed flesh <br>Wrapped round as in the gladiator's mesh <br>And smote as with his triple-forked blade. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I thought that round her sinuous beauty curled <br>Fierce exhalations of hot human love, -- <br>Around her beauty valuable above <br>The sunny outspread kingdoms of the world; <br>Flowing as ever like a dancing fire <br>Flowed her belled ankles and bejewelled wrists, <br>Around her beauty swept like sanguine mists <br>The nimbus of a thousand hearts' desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alan+Seeger">Alan Seeger</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340457" data-title="The Bayadere de Alan Seeger" data-description="Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid By the light veils they burned and blushed amid, Skilled to provoke in soft, lascivious ways, And there was invitation in her voice And laughi..."></div> </div> </div>

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