To Find a Kiss of Yours
To Find a Kiss of Yours - meaning Summary
Longing Framed as Sacrifice
This short lyric expresses intense longing and erotic desire through a sequence of offered exchanges. The speaker imagines what he would give to receive kisses, gazes, and intimate contact, equating sacrifice with spiritual and natural imagery—dawns, stars, rose crystal. The poem links physical yearning to transcendence and loss; sensual objects are described as both precious and stained, suggesting desire’s mix of reverence, pain, and unattainability.
Read Complete AnalysesTo find a kiss of yours what would I give A kiss that strayed from your lips dead to love My lips taste the dirt of shadows To gaze at your dark eyes what would I give Dawns of rainbow garnet fanning open before God — The stars blinded them one morning in May And to kiss your pure thighs what would I give Raw rose crystal sediment of the sun
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