T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Sapphic Dream
By George Moore (18521933)(From Flowers of Passion, 1878) I LOVE the luminous poison of the moon, | |
The silence of illimitable seas, | |
Vast night, and all her myriad mysteries, | |
Perfumes that make the burdened senses swoon | |
And weaken will, large snakes who oscillate | 5 |
Like lovely girls, immense exotic flowers, | |
And cats who purr through silk-enfestooned bowers | |
Where white-limbed women sleep in sumptuous state. | |
My soul e’er dreams, in such a dream as this is, | |
Visions of perfume, moonlight and the blisses | 10 |
Of sexless love, and strange unreached kisses. | |