Song of Solomon

¹ and queenly your movement— Your limbs are lithe and elegant, the work of a master artist.

² wine-filled. Your skin is silken and tawny like a field of wheat touched by the breeze.

³ twins of a gazelle.

⁴ Your eyes are wells of light, deep with mystery. Quintessentially feminine! Your profile turns all heads, commanding attention.

⁵ —stirrings of desire, longings for the heights— Remind me of you, and I'm spoiled for anyone else!

⁶ dear lover, close companion.

⁷ and your full breasts are like sweet clusters of dates.

⁸ I'm going to caress its fruit!" Oh yes! Your breasts will be clusters of sweet fruit to me, Your breath clean and cool like fresh mint,

⁹ Yes, and yours are, too—my love's kisses flow from his lips to mine.

¹⁰ I'm all he wants. I'm all the world to him!

¹¹ let's tramp through the countryside.

¹² then rise early and listen to bird-song. Let's look for wildflowers in bloom, blackberry bushes blossoming white, Fruit trees festooned with cascading flowers. And there I'll give myself to you, my love to your love!

¹³ fertility surrounds, suffuses us, Fruits fresh and preserved that I've kept and saved just for you, my love.