T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
At Refuge
By Lee Timberlake(1921) AT night | |
Haunted and scant clad, | |
I fled my sorrow | |
Into a garden. | |
Tall lillies | 5 |
Pressed pale cheeks | |
Against my ravished breast | |
And shed golden tears. | |
A rose vine | |
Drew in her thorns | 10 |
To passionately entwine my thighs, | |
Bedewing my mouth, while | |
Violets broke precious perfume | |
Across my feet, | |
And pansies pleaded wisdom, | 15 |
With upturned judicial faces. | |
I was comforted. | |