T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Song from The Banished Cavalier
By Aphra Behn (16401689)WHEN Damon first began to love, | |
He languisht in a soft desire, | |
And knew not how the Gods to move, | |
To lessen or increase his fire, | |
For Celia in her charming eyes | 5 |
Wore all love’s Sweet, and all his cruelties. | |
But as beneath a shade he lay, | |
Weaving of flowers for Celia’s hair, | |
She chance to lead her flock that way, | |
And saw the amorous shepherd there. | 10 |
She gazed around upon the place, | |
And saw the grove (resembling night) | |
To all the joys of love invite, | |
Whilst guilty smiles and blushes drest her face, | |
At this the bashful youth all transport grew, | 15 |
And with kind force he taught the virgin how | |
To yield what all his sighs could never do. | |