Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse, Volume 2Thomas Robert Smith subscribers only, 1921 - Erotic literature |
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Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse, Volume 2 Thomas Robert Smith No preview available - 2016 |
Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse, Volume 2 Thomas Robert Smith No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 146 - Sex contains all, bodies, souls, Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk, All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
Page 145 - I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then? I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
Page 145 - I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea. There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well, All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
Page 146 - Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all diffused, mine too diffused, Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice...
Page 146 - Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest, You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Page 178 - To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily beauty more acceptable Than the wild rose-tree's arch that crowns the fell ; To be an essence more environing Than wine's drained juice ; a music ravishing More than the passionate pulse of Philomel...
Page 147 - I will dismiss myself from impassive women, I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me, I see that they understand me and do not deny me, I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.
Page 152 - For never a man, being mean like me, Shall die like me till the whole world dies. I shall drown with her, laughing for love ; and she Mix with me, touching me, lips and eyes. " Shall she not know me and see me all through, — Me, on whose heart as a worm she trod ? You have given me, God requite it you, What man yet never was given of God.
Page 214 - You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' leave me, as you can, My certain shame to bear ? I 'ear ! You do not care — You done the worst you know. I 'ate you, grinnin
Page 84 - Be banished afar both discretion and fear ! Forgetting or scorning the airs of the crowd, He may cease to be formal, and I to be proud, Till lost in the joy, we confess that we live, And he may be rude, and yet I may forgive.