<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=586004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bridegroom</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pity, O Bridegroom,<br>The perilous joy of the bride!<br>In the searching lights of her eyes,<br>In the fugitive flush of her cheeks,<br>In the fainting pink of her palm,<br>In the speed-mad pulse of her wrist,<br>In the throb and flight of her heart,<br>In the lifting foam of her breasts,<br>In her pale, excited smile,--<br>A dim flame, blown in a wind,--<br>See the perilous happiness,<br>Hid in the blood of your bride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eve alone<br>Of the generations of women,<br>Lacked the perilous joy of the bride.<br>Fully innocent, fully ignorant,<br>Gurgled her sweet child-laughter.<br>But to her daughters,<br>Down to the wayward moderns,<br>Whispers and echoes what she learned<br>From giving her secret self,<br>From giving her red rose heart,<br>From giving her cream rose breast,<br>From giving her crystal dreams,--<br>Dividing her trinity,<br>Her soul and her flesh and her mind,<br>With Adam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So began, O Bridegroom,<br>The perilous happiness,<br>A bubble, ready to break,<br>A sphere made of colors alone,<br>Your bride with her searching eyes<br>Holds out to your snatching hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katherine+W.+McCluskey">Katherine W. McCluskey</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=586004" data-title="Bridegroom de Katherine W. McCluskey" data-description="Pity, O Bridegroom,/The perilous joy of the bride!/In the searching lights of her eyes,/In the fugitive flush of her cheeks,/In the fainting pink of her palm,/In the speed-mad pulse of her wrist,/In the throb and flight of her heart,/In the liftin..."></div> </div> </div>

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