There is no Breeze to Cool the Heat of Love
Read 'There is no Breeze to Cool the Heat of Love' by 'Adela Florence Cory Nicolson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
As those who eat a Luscious Fruit, sunbaked,
Full of sweet juice, with zest, until they find
It finished, and their appetite unslaked,
And so return and eat the pared-off rind;—
We, who in Youth, set white and careless teeth
In the Ripe Fruits of Pleasure while they last,
Later, creep back to gnaw the cast-off sheath,
And find there is no Rival like the Past.
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