T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Midsummer
By Lee Timberlake(1921) I HAVE need of love, | |
| I am parched, | |
| And I am barren. | |
| I await the thunder of your demand, | |
| While I crave the lightning shock | 5 |
| Of your embrace | |
| To plough my hardened breast | |
| To flower. | |
| I must have the rainfall | |
| Of your kisses | 10 |
| Increase to torrents | |
| To saturate my sterility; | |
| So the hot sun | |
| Of your smile | |
| Will burst my bud-bonds, | 15 |
| For I must become fecund | |
| That I may sing, | |
| I have need of you! | |