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+------ Thema: Wratislaw, Theodore: Sonnet Macabre (/showthread.php?tid=14432)
Wratislaw, Theodore: Sonnet Macabre - ZaunköniG - 07.05.2007
Sonnet Macabre
I love you for the grief that lurks within
Your languid spirit, and because you wear
Corruption with a vague and childish air,
And with your beauty know the depths of sin;
Because shame cuts and holds you like a gin,
And virtue dies in you slain by despair,
Since evil has you tangled in its snare
And triumphs on the soul good cannot win.
I love you since you know remorse and tears,
And in your troubled loveliness appears
The spot of ancient crimes that writhe and hiss:
I love you for your hands that calm and bless,
The perfume of your sad and slow caress,
The avid poison of your subtle kiss.