T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Young Phaon
Anonymous(From Choice Ayres & Songs [John Playford], ii. 1679) |
YOUNG Phaon strove the Bliss to taste; | |
| But Sappho still deny’d; | |
| She struggled long, the youth at last, | |
| Lay panting by her side. | |
| Useless he lay, Love would not wait, | 5 |
| ’Till they could both agree; | |
| They idly languish’d in debate, | |
| When they should active be. | |
| At last, come ruin me, she cry’d, | |
| And then there fell a Tear: | 10 |
| I’ll in thy Breast my Blushes hide, | |
| Do all that Virgins fear. | |
| Oh, that age could love’s Rites perform, | |
| We make Old Men obey; | |
| They court us long, Youth does but storm, | 15 |
| And plunder and away. | |