T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
II. La téte Coupee
By Harold Greenthal(From the French of Tristan Klingsor, 1921) |
IF you ever say again, | |
| Old Shemseddin, grey-bearded knave, | |
| That you have had in your bed | |
| The body of my little Zuleika, | |
| That you have possessed her | 5 |
| For three Ormuz sugar-plums | |
| And a piece of gold,— | |
| Beware lest someone soon find, | |
| Among the roses of your garden— | |
| Where jets of water sing all night— | 10 |
| The severed head of Shemseddin! | |