PoemO Hymen! O Hymenee!
Author / PoetWalt Whitman
TagsHymen, Moment, Sting, Tantalize

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 me?

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819 - 26 Mar 1892
Region: North America
Period: Romantic
Movement: Realism, Transcendentalism

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