T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
The Ravish’d Lover
Anonymous(A Broadside Song with music, c. 1736) |
WHEN Fanny blooming fair | |
| First met my ravished Sight, | |
| Caught with her Shape and Air, | |
| I felt a strange delight: | |
| Whilst eagerly I gazed, | 5 |
| Admiring ev’ry part, | |
| I every feature praised, | |
| She stole into my Heart. | |
| In her bewitching Eyes | |
| Young smiling Loves appear, | 10 |
| There Cupid basking lies, | |
| His Shafts are hoarded there: | |
| Her Blooming cheeks are dyed | |
| With Colour all their own, | |
| Excelling far the pride | 15 |
| Of Roses newly blown. | |
| Her well turned limbs confess | |
| The lucky hand of Jove, | |
| Her Features all express, | |
| The Beauteous Queen of Love. | 20 |
| What Flames my Nerves invade, | |
| When I behold the Breast | |
| Of that too lovely Maid, | |
| Rise suing to be prest. | |
| Venus round Fanny’s waste, | 25 |
| Hath her own Cestus Bound, | |
| With Guardian Cupids graced, | |
| Who sport the circle round; | |
| How happy will he be, | |
| Who shall her Zone unlose; | 30 |
| That bliss to all but me | |
| May Heav’n and she refuse. | |