T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Leves Amores, I
By Arthur Symons (18651945)(From London Nights, 1895) YOUR kisses, and the way you curl, | |
Delicious and distracting girl, | |
Into one’s arms, and round about, | |
Luxuriously in and out | |
Twining inextricably, as twine | 5 |
The clasping tangles of the vine; | |
Strong to embrace and long to kiss, | |
And strenuous for the sharper bliss, | |
Insatiably enamoured of | |
The ultimate ecstasy of love. | 10 |
So loving to be loved, so gay | |
And greedy for our holiday; | |
And then how prettily you sleep! | |
You nestle close, and let me keep | |
My straying fingers in the nest | 15 |
Of your warm comfortable breast; | |
And as I lie and dream awake, | |
Unsleeping for your sleeping sake, | |
I feel the very pulse and heat | |
Of your young life-blood beat, and beat | 20 |
With mine; and you are mine, my sweet! | |