| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | A Sapphic Dream | | By George Moore (1852–1933) |
| | (From Flowers of Passion, 1878)
I LOVE the luminous poison of the moon, | |
| The silence of illimitable seas, | |
| Vast night, and all her myriad mysteries, | |
| Perfumes that make the burdened senses swoon | |
| And weaken will, large snakes who oscillate | 5 |
| Like lovely girls, immense exotic flowers, | |
| And cats who purr through silk-enfestooned bowers | |
| Where white-limbed women sleep in sumptuous state. | |
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| My soul e’er dreams, in such a dream as this is, | |
| Visions of perfume, moonlight and the blisses | 10 |
| Of sexless love, and strange unreached kisses. | | | | |
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