T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Almost
By Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977)(From The New Adam, 1920) MY sweetheart has beneficent arms | |
| So full of tenderness and fire, | |
| They almost cheat her other charms | |
| The way they rouse and still desire. | |
| My sweetheart has the kindest breast, | 5 |
| Two heavens with each a single star; | |
| They give me everything but rest, | |
| So strange these rosy pillows are. | |
| My sweetheart has the hungriest lips | |
| They seek and press unsparingly; | 10 |
| They probe until she almost slips | |
| Among her kisses into me. | |
| My sweetheart’s body is a cry, | |
| A poignant and resistless call; | |
| It almost makes me wonder why | 15 |
| She hasn’t any mind at all. | |