I am tired of this! <br />Nothing else but loving! <br />Nothing else but kiss and kiss, <br />Coo, and turtle-doving! <br />Can't you change the order some? <br />Hate me just a little--come! <br /> <br />Lay aside your 'dears,' <br />'Darlings,' 'kings,' and 'princes!'-- <br />Call me knave, and dry your tears-- <br />Nothing in me winces,-- <br />Call me something low and base-- <br />Something that will suit the case! <br /> <br />Wish I had your eyes <br />And their drooping lashes! <br />I would dry their teary lies <br />Up with lightning-flashes-- <br />Make your sobbing lips unsheathe <br />All the glitter of your teeth! <br /> <br />Can't you lift one word-- <br />With some pang of laughter-- <br />Louder than the drowsy bird <br />Crooning 'neath the rafter? <br />Just one bitter word, to shriek <br />Madly at me as I speak! <br /> <br />How I hate the fair <br />Beauty of your forehead! <br />How I hate your fragrant hair! <br />How I hate the torrid <br />Touches of your splendid lips, <br />And the kiss that drips and drips! <br /> <br />Ah, you pale at last! <br />And your face is lifted <br />Like a white sail to the blast, <br />And your hands are shifted <br />Into fists: and, towering thus, <br />You are simply glorious! <br /> <br />Now before me looms <br />Something more than human; <br />Something more than beauty blooms <br />In the wrath of Woman-- <br />Something to bow down before <br />Reverently and adore.<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-variation/
