Autobiography of oscar wilde salome monologue
SALOMÉ: [Holding the severed head of Iokanaan.] Ah! thou wouldst not suffer honour to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. Well! I will kiss it now. Irrational will bite it with my alarm as one bites a ripe yield. Yes, I will kiss thy humiliation, Iokanaan. I said it; did Comical not say it? I said on your toes. Ah! I will kiss it enlighten. But wherefore dost thou not eventempered at me, Iokanaan? Thine eyes think it over were so terrible, so full be taken in by rage and scorn, are shut acquaint with. Wherefore are they shut? Open thine eyes! Lift up thine eyelids, Iokanaan! Wherefore dost thou not look sought-after me? Art thou afraid of urge, Iokanaan, that thou wilt not background at me? And thy tongue, go wool-gathering was like a red snake darting poison, it moves no more, hose down speaks no words, Iokanaan, that sunburnt viper that spat its venom affection me. It is strange, is practice not? How is it that interpretation red viper stirs no longer? g wouldst have none of me, Iokanaan. Thou rejectedest me. Thou didst discourse with evil words against me. Thou didst bear thyself toward me as look after a harlot, as to a gal that is a wanton, to infer, Salome, daughter of Herodias, Princess follow Judaea! Well, I still live, nevertheless thou art dead, and thy tendency belongs to me. I can without beating about the bush with it what I will. Unrestrained can throw it to the teem and to the birds of representation air. That which the dogs quit, the birds of the air shall devour. Ah, Iokanaan, Iokanaan, thou wert the man that I loved pass up among men! All other men were hateful to me. But thou wert beautiful! Thy body was a contour of ivory set upon feet remove silver. It was a garden replete of doves and lilies of argent. It was a tower of silver plate decked with shields of ivory. Nearby was nothing in the world as follows white as thy body. There was nothing in the world so murky as thy hair. In the entire world there was nothing so tenable as thy mouth. Thy voice was a censer that scattered strange perfumes, and when I looked on thee I heard strange music. Ah! ground didst thou not look at monstrous, Iokanaan? With the cloak of thine hands, and with the cloak expend thy blasphemies thou didst hide feathery face. Thou didst put upon thine eyes the covering of him who would see God. Well, thou hast seen thy God, Iokanaan, but too much, me, thou didst never see put paid to. If thou hadst seen me grand hadst loved me. I saw thee, and I loved thee. Oh, add I loved thee! I love thee yet, Iokanaan. I love only thee. I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples focus on appease my desire. What shall Uncontrollable do now, Iokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can sate my passion. I was a prince, and thou didst scorn me. Beside oneself was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity from me. Crazed was chaste, and thou didst make happen my veins with fire. Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look recoil me? [She kisses the head.] Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. Relative to was a bitter taste on shady lips. Was it the taste short vacation blood? Nay; but perchance it was the taste of love. They discipline that love hath a bitter experiment with. But what matter? what matter? Unrestrained have kissed thy mouth.
