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T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.

A Sapphic Dream

By George Moore (1852–1933)
 
(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.