Enough of love! Let break its every hold! <br />Ended my youthful folly! for I know <br />That, like the dazzling, glister-shedding snow, <br />Celia, thou art beautiful, but cold. <br />I do not find in thee that warmth which glows, <br />Which, all these dreary days, my heart has sought, <br />That warmth without which love is lifeless, naught <br />More than a painted fruit, a waxen rose. <br /> <br />Such love as thine, scarce can it bear love's name, <br />Deaf to the pleading notes of his sweet lyre, <br />A frank, impulsive heart I wish to claim, <br />A heart that blindly follows its desire. <br />I wish to embrace a woman full of flame, <br />I want to kiss a woman made of fire.<br /><br />James Weldon Johnson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-the-spanish-of-placido/
