O Hymen! O Hymenee!
1819-1892
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?
DayPoems Poem No. 1910
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1910.html">O Hymen! O Hymenee! by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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