Time & Brevity
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
From Leaves of Grass
Time & Brevity
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 moment you would
soon certainly kill me?
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “O Hymen! O Hymenee!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/35/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “O Hymen! O Hymenee!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/35/.
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