T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Gentle Breeze from the Lavinian Sea
Anonymous(From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719) A GENTLE Breeze from the Lavinian Sea, | |
Was gliding o’er the Coast of Sicily; | |
When lulled with soft Repose, a prostrate Maid, | |
Upon her bended Arm had raised her Head: | |
Her Soul was all tranquil and smooth with Rest, | 5 |
Like the harmonious Slumbers of the Blest. | |
Wrapped up in Silence, innocent she lay, | |
And pressed the Flow’rs with Touch as soft as they. | |
My thoughts in gentless Sounds she did impart, | |
Heightened by all the Graces of that Art; | 10 |
And as I sung, I grasped her yielding Thighs, | |
Till broken Accents faultered into Sighs: | |
I kissed and wished, and foraged all her store, | |
Yet wallowing in the Pleasure, I was poor; | |
No kind Relief my Agonies could ease, | 15 |
I groaned, and cursed Religious Cruelties. | |
The trembling Nymph all o’er Confusion lay, | |
Her melting Looks in sweet Disorder play; | |
Her Colour varies, and her Breath’s oppressed, | |
And all her Faculties are dispossessed, | 20 |
At last impetuously her Pulses move, | |
She gives a mighty Loose to stifled Love; | |
Then murmurs in a soft Complaint, and cries, | |
Alas! and thus in soft Convulsions dies. | |