Poems by Albert Samain

NAKED, the Hermaphrodite is stretched to muse
With writhing reptile limbs upon her bed;
The j...

YOUR memory is like a book we love,
And which our face is ever bent above;
Our heart read int...

THE breeze of morning stirs the grasses fine;
Light vapour floats along the wooded slope,
And...

THE sky weeps white tears that freeze
On the rosy days that are dead;
And Cupids with chapped ...

I I DREAMED of a jungle flowered with burning scents,
Moist with the tufts of musk and creeper...

I PROLONG our love's contents
With a pallid wine that gleams
Through glasses the colour of dre...

TONIGHT there shall be lighted here no tapers,
but a sheaf of still wet flowers that shake in f...

LIFE is a flower I scarcely breathe, for pain
Is every earthly perfume after a while.
My fancy...

TOWARD sweet October pilgrim winter creeps,
Brushed by the last lone swallow's frightened wings...

To think. Alone in darkness sybilline
To shiver!.. To be subtle fire around
The cosmos and refi...

O HARK what the symphony saith,
Nothing is sweet as a death
Of music vague on the breath
That...

SINCE there are no words that can hold the brine
On this sad evening in my soul distilling,
Le...

MY soul is an Infanta robed in state,
Whose exile is reflected evermore
In mighty mirrors of t...

LIME, and birch, and aspen branches quiver..
The moon sheds petals on the river.. Like...

BLACK in the blue night Argus sails, while dozes
Each chieftain sad, dreaming of Grecian hills...