Undine

Renée Vivien (1877 - 1909) - A British female poet who wrote in French

Undine *

Your laughter is light, your caress is deep,
Your cold kisses love the harm they do;
Your eyes are blue like lotus waves
And the water lilies are less pure than your face.
You flee, you move fluidly;
Your hair falls in gentle reeds;
Your voice is a treacherous tide;
Your arms are supple reeds.
Along high river reeds, their embrace
Enlaces, chokes, strangles savagely;
Deep in the waves, an agony
Extinguishes in a nightly swoon.

Renée Vivien (1877 - 1909) * Undine was a water-nymph who fell deeply in love with a human. She was permitted to be with him but would die if he ever was unfaithful to her.