T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Midsummer
By Lee Timberlake(1921) I HAVE need of love, | |
I am parched, | |
And I am barren. | |
I await the thunder of your demand, | |
While I crave the lightning shock | 5 |
Of your embrace | |
To plough my hardened breast | |
To flower. | |
I must have the rainfall | |
Of your kisses | 10 |
Increase to torrents | |
To saturate my sterility; | |
So the hot sun | |
Of your smile | |
Will burst my bud-bonds, | 15 |
For I must become fecund | |
That I may sing, | |
I have need of you! | |