E. E. Cummings

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Moonlit, Erotic Yearning

The poem presents a compact, sensual evocation of night and desire. A solitary moon is imagined as a lover, drawn to water and the trembling heavens. Imagery accumulates to portray an intimate, almost worshipful longing: darkness becomes a space of urgency and anointing, and the speaker gathers love like a slow, deliberate act toward a "languorous mouth" and a "thrilling flower." The tone blends tenderness with erotic intensity.

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there is a moon sole in the blue night amorous of waters tremulous, blinded with silence the undulous heaven yearns where in tense starlessness anoint with ardor the yellow lover stands in the dumb dark svelte and urgent (again love i slowly gather of thy languorous mouth the thrilling flower)

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