| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Leves Amores, I | | By Arthur Symons (1865–1945) |
| | (From London Nights, 1895)
YOUR kisses, and the way you curl, | |
| Delicious and distracting girl, | |
| Into one’s arms, and round about, | |
| Luxuriously in and out | |
| Twining inextricably, as twine | 5 |
| The clasping tangles of the vine; | |
| Strong to embrace and long to kiss, | |
| And strenuous for the sharper bliss, | |
| Insatiably enamoured of | |
| The ultimate ecstasy of love. | 10 |
| So loving to be loved, so gay | |
| And greedy for our holiday; | |
| And then how prettily you sleep! | |
| You nestle close, and let me keep | |
| My straying fingers in the nest | 15 |
| Of your warm comfortable breast; | |
| And as I lie and dream awake, | |
| Unsleeping for your sleeping sake, | |
| I feel the very pulse and heat | |
| Of your young life-blood beat, and beat | 20 |
| With mine; and you are mine, my sweet! | | | | |
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