“A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death…”
Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)
Context: A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death...
By what attraction
Am I drawn, what morn forgotten by the prophets
That pours on the dying distance its sad rites?
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Stéphane Mallarmé 36
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