T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Song of Khan Zada
By Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) (18651904)(From India’s Love Lyrics, 1902) |
AS one may sip a Stranger’s Bowl | |
You gave yourself but not your soul. | |
I wonder, now that time has passed, | |
Where you will come to rest at last. | |
You gave your beauty for an hour, | 5 |
I held it gently as a flower. | |
You wished to leave me, told me so,— | |
I kissed your feet and let you go. | |