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

I. L’attente

By Harold Greenthal

(From the French of Tristan Klingsor, 1921)

TO make our love memorable
I carried wine from Shiraz;
I prepared a bed broidered with silk
And two velvet pillows;
Then I perfumed the water in the vases,	5
To bathe you after the amorous combat.

I bought figs full of seed,
Dried raisins, and cakes
Of farina, sugar and rice,
To eat while toying with you,	10
My little dear,—
But you never came….