O Hymen! O Hymenee!
by Walt Whitman
· 1871
Published 01/07/1871
O HYMEN! O hymenee!
Why do you tantalize me thus?
O why sting me for a swift moment only?
Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
Is it because, if you continued beyond the swift mo-mentmoment, you would soon certainly kill me?