Love Repays
A Poem
Love Repays
Your slender body against my flesh,
Hearing your heart within your breast,
I burn to pull you back within,
And lay replete in wholesome rest.
But separate parts are luscious grace,
And different limbs are pleasure’s gain,
As supple soft is vigor lean,
As virgin gifts are night-silk’s stain.
If pain, then pain, for love bears pain,
The simple cost of sacred games,
If wager some, then none retain,
To pay the price for Cupid’s aim.