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T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.

Sonnet Eternal

By Donald Evans (1884–1921)

(From Discords, 1911) IT is not that I love thee any less,
Which holds me back when I might so close be;
Thy lips have opened, calling hungrily,
And thy eyes fill with questioning distress.
I stand away but to once more confess	5
How my whole soul throbs with its pride in thee,—
Still gaze I at my fortune wonderingly,
For thou art near the stars in perfectness!
O keen clean limbs! O little sweet fleet feet!
O bright white thighs that are love’s resting-place!	10
O singing curves that make thy body’s line!
When and where was it first we two did meet?
And how have I deserved of life this grace,
Possession of thy womanhood divine?