Lines inspired by Ovid's 'Amores'
Create a place for your wantonness
Leave modesty aside in her drab dress
Fill that place with all delights
Lay thigh on thigh night on night
Let the tongue thrust into purple lips
And desire teach love a thousand tricks
With urgent words and wordless eyes
Let the bedframe shudder to your cries
But when you go from that fine place
Wear chastity upon your face
Pace the world with demure tread
And leave your sins upon the bed.

Walter G Standforth