T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
V. L’eveil
By Harold Greenthal(From the French of Tristan Klingsor, 1921) |
CROSS your bare legs in your bed; | |
| Scratch the tip of your nose | |
| With your slender, tapering fingers; | |
| Rub with your soft knuckles | |
| The two violets of your rimmed eyes…. | 5 |
| And dream. | |
| From the top of the Arabian minaret | |
| There issues | |
| The short, sad melopoeia | |
| Of one of the faithful, | 10 |
| And you yawn like a little cat, | |
| As though tired of love, | |
| And you think of the one, | |
| From Ormuz or Endor, | |
| Who quitted you this morning, | 15 |
| Leaving his purse of golden pieces | |
| And the blue marks of his kisses. | |