10 Best Famous Tantalize Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Tantalize poems. This is a select list of the best famous Tantalize poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Tantalize poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of tantalize poems.

• All Famous Tantalize Poems

 A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis --
To meet an Antique Book --
In just the Dress his Century wore --
A privilege -- I think --

His venerable Hand to take --
And warming in our own --
A passage back -- or two -- to make --
To Times when he -- was young --

His quaint opinions -- to inspect --
His thought to ascertain
On Themes concern our mutual mind --
The Literature of Man --

What interested Scholars -- most --
What Competitions ran --
When Plato -- was a Certainty --
And Sophocles -- a Man --

When Sappho -- was a living Girl --
And Beatrice wore
The Gown that Dante -- deified --
Facts Centuries before

He traverses -- familiar --
As One should come to Town --
And tell you all your Dreams -- were true --
He lived -- where Dreams were born --

His presence is Enchantment --
You beg him not to go --
Old Volume shake their Vellum Heads
And tantalize -- just so --

 O HYMEN! O hymenee! 
Why do you tantalize me thus? 
O why sting me for a swift moment only? 
Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease? 
Is it because, if you continued beyond the swift moment, you would soon certainly kill
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