T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Afterword
Anonymous(From The Point of View, 1905) IF aught indelicate has jarred the sense, | |
If aught of sophistry has brought a frown, | |
Perhaps a counter charge might be set down | |
And leave the reader with a sad defence. | |
If aught of flighty verse or tale intense | 5 |
Has led you on, this final page to crown | |
With comment critical, some slight renown | |
Accrues to me through that same evidence, | |
For were you not, yourself, on pleasure bent, | |
You surely had not read as far as here. | 10 |
I pray you judge me by my good intent | |
To bring a smile or chase away a tear, | |
And if my methods must for pardon sue, | |
I first must bid you take my Point of View. | |