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A Woman Waits for Me

...ing, or if the moisture of the right man were
 lacking. 

Sex contains all, 
Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, 
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk;
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, 
All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, 
All the governments, judges, gods, follow’d persons of the earth, 
These are contain’d in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself. 

Without ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Elegy VII

...t from the world's Common having severed thee,
Inlaid thee, neither to be seen, nor see,
As mine: who have with amorous delicacies
Refined thee into a blisful Paradise.
Thy graces and good words my creatures be;
I planted knowledge and life's tree in thee,
Which Oh, shall strangers taste? Must I alas
Frame and enamel plate, and drink in glass?
Chaf wax for others' seals? break a colt's force
And leave him then, being made a ready horse?...Read more of this...
by Donne, John

Paradise Lost: Book 08

...
In all things else delight indeed, but such 
As, used or not, works in the mind no change, 
Nor vehement desire; these delicacies 
I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers, 
Walks, and the melody of birds: but here 
Far otherwise, transported I behold, 
Transported touch; here passion first I felt, 
Commotion strange! in all enjoyments else 
Superiour and unmoved; here only weak 
Against the charm of Beauty's powerful glance. 
Or Nature failed in me, and lef...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Regained: The Second Book

..., obtrude this diligence
In vain, where no acceptance it can find?
And with my hunger what hast thou to do?
Thy pompous delicacies I contemn, 
And count thy specious gifts no gifts, but guiles."
 To whom thus answered Satan, male-content:—
"That I have also power to give thou seest;
If of that power I bring thee voluntary
What I might have bestowed on whom I pleased,
And rather opportunely in this place
Chose to impart to thy apparent need,
Why shouldst thou not accept it? Bu...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp

...
 The world's full teats into his royal helpless mouth. 
 Each hard-sought dainty that never failed to please, 
 All delicacies, wines, from east, west, north or south, 
 Are plenty here—for Sultan Zizimi drinks wine 
 In its variety, trying to find what never sates. 
 Laughs at the holy writings and the text divine, 
 O'er which the humble dervish prays and venerates. 
 There is a common saying which holds often good: 
 That cruel is he who is sparing in his cups. 
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by Hugo, Victor


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