PUBERTY
Too soon it sang to me of love’s mad wiles,
Of wasted nights, of maidens’ warm caresses,
Too soon its promising and tempting smiles
Tired my body with extreme excesses.
Vainly I stretched my arms and yearned
For remnants off the table laden low,
Against my breast, where carnal passions burned,
I only grasped the phantom’s foggy snow.
Oh, the endless nights of intermittent waking,
Ere through the window creeps the morning light,
When the body feels a thirst that knows no slaking,
And bluntly bleeds in the dark enfolding night.
This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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