| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Come and Lie with Me | | By Elsie A. Gidlow |
| | (From The Pagan, 1920)
COME and lie with me and love me, | |
| Bitterness; | |
| Touch me with your hands a little, | |
| Kiss me, as you lean above me, | |
| With your cold, sadistic kisses; | 5 |
| Wind your hair close, close around me,— | |
| Pain might dissipate this blankness; | |
| Hurt me even, even wound me; | |
| I have need of love that stings. | |
| Come and lie with me and love me, | 10 |
| Bitterness, | |
| So that I can laugh at things. | | | | |
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