| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Julia’s Clothes | | By Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) |
| | | AH, when at night my lady sweet | |
| Loosens the honeyed linen from her thigh, | |
| Girdle and smock and all the warm things lie | |
| Fall’n in a snowdrift round her feet; | |
| Or like the foam that kissed the toes | 5 |
| Of Venus, nailed with pearl, | |
| When from the sea she rose, | |
| The wondrous golden girl. | |
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| Then, bending low, I take the sweet cloud up, | |
| Stained through with sweets from arm and breast and thigh, | 10 |
| And, like a greedy gloating butterfly, | |
| Upon the hoarded fragrance sup and sup. | |
| Yea, as I feast upon my lady’s clothes, | |
| I dream I am a bee, and they a rose. | | | | |
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