T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Knowledge
By George Reston Malloch (1875–1953)(From Poems and Lyrics, 1917) |
| HE. | I HAVE known many women, and I know | |
| That love is sweeter unfulfilled. | ||
| Cast not your heavy eyes upon me so, | ||
| Love-weary child! | ||
| Our souls held commune sweetly, as they willed, | 5 | |
| And it is sweeter, fairer, so. | ||
| Sweeter to sit, hands clasped and voices stilled, | ||
| In the evening glow. | ||
| SHE. | I have known no man, ever—and I know | |
| That all my body burns for you. | 10 | |
| Surges from some vast ocean ebb and flow | ||
| My hot veins through. | ||
| And while our souls communed, in me there grew | ||
| A hungry, passionate, wild glow. | ||
| My flesh is yearning for your flesh, a new, | 15 | |
| Immense, strange throe. | ||