| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Lunette | | By Orrick Johns (1887–1946) |
| | (From “Hedone”; from Black Branches, 1920) |
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THE WINDOW flames no longer clamber | |
| like gonfanons against the sky, | |
| and faintly blue-green glows the camber | |
| of her thigh. | |
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| The febrile radiance left of day | 5 |
| creeps through the forest of her passion, | |
| and riant in the dusk I stay | |
| a man of fashion … | |
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| Her cigarette, avid of design, | |
| is one still spark by shadow pressed, | 10 |
| and like a moon beneath, benign, | |
| glimmers her breast. | | | |
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