| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Afterword | | Anonymous |
| | (From The Point of View, 1905)
IF aught indelicate has jarred the sense, | |
| If aught of sophistry has brought a frown, | |
| Perhaps a counter charge might be set down | |
| And leave the reader with a sad defence. | |
| If aught of flighty verse or tale intense | 5 |
| Has led you on, this final page to crown | |
| With comment critical, some slight renown | |
| Accrues to me through that same evidence, | |
| For were you not, yourself, on pleasure bent, | |
| You surely had not read as far as here. | 10 |
| I pray you judge me by my good intent | |
| To bring a smile or chase away a tear, | |
| And if my methods must for pardon sue, | |
| I first must bid you take my Point of View. | | | | |
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