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Le feu aux poudres
Identifier
007549
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Fragonard - Le feu aux poudres
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD; Grasse, 1732 - Paris, 1806
‘Fire with the powders’ - This scene of a ‘libertine’ ("Libertine" has come to mean one free from restraint, particularly from social and religious norms and morals) is paired with another composition preserved at the Louvre, La chemise enlevée, which I have also used for a poem
Don’t leave me, don’t leave me, sweet lover of mine
What you have been doing is simply divine
Of you and your ardour I never will tire
Just lift up the bed clothes and look at the fire
All your work my darling, just feel to confirm
My breasts are enlarged and my nipples are firm
All the thoughts in my head have by you been quite stolen
I’m running with love and red, hot and swollen
Don’t go, please don’t go, love with you’s all I want
My teacher in love, my passionate savant
Why is loving you always so new not the same?
[How my body it burns like a pink naked flame ]
The pathway to paradise’s had by this door
Through the cleft of Venus, inflamed by delight
So hot love, so hot love please take me all night
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