T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Song for a Girl
By John Dryden (16311700)(From Love Triumphant) YOUNG I am, and yet unskill’d | |
How to make a Lover yield: | |
How to keep, or how to gain, | |
When to love; and when to feign. | |
Take me, take me, some of you, | 5 |
While I yet am young and true; | |
E’re I can my soul disguise; | |
Heave my breasts, and roll my eyes. | |
Stay not till I learn the way, | |
How to lie, and to betray: | 10 |
He that has me first, is blest, | |
For I may deceive the rest. | |
Cou’d I find a blooming youth, | |
Full of love, and full of truth, | |
Brisk, and of a jaunty mean | 15 |
I should long to be fifteen. | |