pulse-wearied

Updated: January 1, 2026

Or are they not words at all, but chalices and Holy graals, of human passion, full of the life-blood, staining the lips that approach them scarlet, of heart-drained pulse-wearied ravishment? Certainly he has the touch, ineffable, final, absolute, of the supreme Beauty.

John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions