Classic Poem

No prayers or pleas have left them unmolested;
All once must feel my crude seraphic lust;
Omnipotence so wills, obey I must,
And, murmurless, obeying, have not rested.

And, since the awful advent of the ages,
Before creative God his plans combined,
In every atom-world my soul can find
The transient traces of its amorous rages!

Invisible, impalpable, erratic,
I cull the bud of love upon each breast;
Red, holy lips are ravaged and caressed,
White forms are warmly held in bonds ecstatic.

And like a south breeze with sweet fragrance teeming,
That robs a rose-core of its dawning charm
So gently that it fosters no alarm,
I leave my sullied flesh-flowers calmly dreaming.

Each seed and plant that God on earth hath lavished
I woo and win in infinite delight,
And, in the solemn pauses of the night,
By me their modest redolence is ravished.

The distant suns, the stars serene and stainless,
Atom and insect, fish, and brute, and bird,
Alike are made submissive to my word
When'er I visit them in languor painless.

And in the spirit-seas of germs prolific,
Domain of marvels veiled and blurred to man,
Whose feeble sight their splendors can not span,
I roam unquestioned, worshiped, beatific!

For I lend life, like God, and my caresses,
Discreetly foul, bring forth divine results;
Nativity in fearlessness exults;
I am the spoiler that no thing oppresses!

Imposing shades and lights, that have existence
Beyond the bounds of space, know life and love;
I hold the vague virginities thereof;
Unto my claims they offer no resistance!

And when I hear men cry in proud elation:
" This woman I love is mine, and only mine! "
My lips are curled in laughter saturnine,
For they know not my dominance and station.