The children of the poor are little plants

That grow in sandy soil midst rocks and weeds

And rusty cans of tin, and other junk

Within the gloomy shadow of a wall,

The gloomy shadow of a mildewed wall;

Poor little plants! poor children of the poor.

THE CALL OF SEX

Know you that bottomless and boundless sea,

Each heaving billow whereof is a woman?

Oh, how my love-parched body craves to plunge