T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
III. La ruse
By Harold Greenthal(From the French of Tristan Klingsor, 1921) |
OLD KHALIF with the perfumed beard, | |
| You have imprisoned my beloved | |
| In a hundred robes of silk | |
| And scarlet velvet: | |
| But the five little white mice | 5 |
| That are her fingers | |
| Know how to deliver quickly | |
| Her flower-fleshed body, | |
| While the eunuch at the door | |
| Sleeps like a heron on one foot. | 10 |