| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Prayer | | By F. Jacobs |
| | (From The Pagan, 1920)
WHY do you not calm me, sweet, | |
| When I tremble so, and cannot cease? | |
| When I am alone, and you come to me,— | |
| However warm the day,— | |
| Such a quivering seizes me, | 5 |
| Such a merciless, poignant shaking, | |
| All my very lips I cannot control, | |
| Till you gather me in your warm strong arms, | |
| Till you have kissed me into a fever, | |
| Till your steady calm has penetrated my body, | 10 |
| And reassured my trembling one | |
| That all is well, | |
| That you are here. | | | | |
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