T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
V. Leveil
By Harold Greenthal(From the French of Tristan Klingsor, 1921) |
CROSS your bare legs in your bed; | |
Scratch the tip of your nose | |
With your slender, tapering fingers; | |
Rub with your soft knuckles | |
The two violets of your rimmed eyes…. | 5 |
And dream. | |
From the top of the Arabian minaret | |
There issues | |
The short, sad melopoeia | |
Of one of the faithful, | 10 |
And you yawn like a little cat, | |
As though tired of love, | |
And you think of the one, | |
From Ormuz or Endor, | |
Who quitted you this morning, | 15 |
Leaving his purse of golden pieces | |
And the blue marks of his kisses. | |