Death of a Libertine

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Death of a Libertine

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She Beguiles my senses, but in the past tense;

Extravagant blunderings, drunken and bent.

Decadent pagentry on forsaken dollar;

Corrosion of tongue and flagrance and squalor.

Depths of despair: The vagrant that wanders

Loathsome and caged resides my purged heart

Reviled by th'eyes and ears of the art;

Death by which pleasure? (the Libertine ponders)

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A libertine is one devoid of most moral restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society.^[1]^[2] Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. (Wikipedia definition)