T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.

A Poem of Privacy

Mediæval Latin Student’s Songs

(From Wine, Women and Song. Translated by John Addington Symonds)

WHEN a young man, passion-laden,
In a chamber meets a maiden,
Then felicitous communion,
By love’s strain between the twain,
Grows from forth their union;	5
For the game, it hath no name,
Of lips, arms, and hidden charms.