| 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)
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| | 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! | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | | | |
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