Love can do all but raise the Dead 1
I doubt if even that
From such a giant were withheld
Were flesh equivalent
But love is tired and must sleep, 5
And hungry and must graze
And so abets the shining Fleet
Till it is out of gaze.
I doubt if even that
From such a giant were withheld
Were flesh equivalent
But love is tired and must sleep, 5
And hungry and must graze
And so abets the shining Fleet
Till it is out of gaze.
(F.1758/J.1731)
[1] Love:: love words.
[3] giant:: a lover who gives love words first before sex. withheld:: suppressed his sexual desire.
[4] flesh:: a) human nature of sex; b) the body that equivalent to the dead in line one.
[5] love:: a lover. sleep:: to have sex.
[6] hungry:: craving, desirous. graze:: to rub; to have sexual intercourse.
[7] abets:: encourages, urges. the shining Fleet:: the fleeting sparkles of love words.
[8] out of gaze:: lost focus of the lover, who talked no more.
