<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Le Balcon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mere des souvenirs, mattresses des mattresses<br>Mother of Memories! O mistress-queen !<br>Oh ! all my joy and all my duty thou !<br>The beauty of caresses that have been,<br>The evenings and the hearth remember now,<br>Mother of Memories! O mistress-queen !</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The evenings burning with the glowing fire,<br>And on the balcony, the rose-stained nights!<br>How sweet, how kind you were, my soul's desire.<br>We said things wonderful as chrysolites,<br>When evening burned beside the glowing fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How fair the Sun is in the evening !<br>How strong the soul, how high the heaven's high tower !<br>O first and last of every worshipped thing,<br>Your odorous heart's-blood filled me like a flower.<br>How fair the sun is in the evening !</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night grew deep between us like a pall,<br>And in the dark I guessed your shining eyes,<br>And drank your breath, O sweet, O honey-gall!<br>Your little feet slept on me sister-wise.<br>The night grew deep between us like a pall;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can call back the days desirable,<br>And live all bliss again between your knees,<br>For where else can I find that magic spell<br>Save in your heart and in your Mysteries ?<br>I can call back the days desirable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These vows, these scents, these kisses infinite,<br>Will they like young suns climbing up the skies<br>Rise up from some unfathomable pit,<br>Washed in the sea from all impurities ?<br>O vows, O scents, O kisses infinite !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lord+Alfred+Douglas">Lord Alfred Douglas</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=448919" data-title="Le Balcon de Lord Alfred Douglas" data-description="Mere des souvenirs, mattresses des mattresses Mother of Memories! O mistress-queen ! Oh ! all my joy and all my duty thou ! The beauty of caresses that have been, The evenings and the hearth remember now, Mother of Memories! O mistress-queen ! Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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