To Fanny + 

I cry your mercy⁠—pity⁠—love⁠—aye, love! + 

Merciful love that tantalizes not, + 

One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love, + 

Unmask’d, and being seen⁠—without a blot! + 

O! let me have thee whole,⁠—all⁠—all⁠—be mine! + 

That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zest + 

Of love, your kiss,⁠—those hands, those eyes divine, + 

That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast,⁠— + 

Yourself⁠—your soul⁠—in pity give me all, + 

Withhold no atom’s atom, or I die, + 

Or living on perhaps, your wretched thrall, + 

Forget, in the mist of idle misery, + 

Life’s purposes⁠—the palate of my mind + 

Losing its gust, and my ambition blind! + 