T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
When First Amyntas Sud for a Kiss
Anonymous(From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) |
WHEN first Amyntas su’d for a Kiss, | |
My innocent Heart was tender; | |
That tho’ I pushed him away from the bliss, | |
My eyes declared my Heart was won; | |
I fain an artful Coyness would use, | 5 |
Before I the Fort did Surrender: | |
But Love would suffer no more such abuse, | |
And soon, alas! my cheat was known: | |
He’d sit all day, and laugh and play, | |
A thousand pretty things would say; | 10 |
My hand he’d squeeze, and press my knees, | |
Till farther on he got by degrees. | |
My Heart, just like a Vessel at Sea, | |
Would toss when Amyntas was near me; | |
But ah! so cunning a Pilot was he, | 15 |
Thro’ Doubts and Fears he’d still sail on: | |
I thought in him no danger could be, | |
Too wisely he knows how to steer me; | |
And soon, alas! was brought to agree, | |
To taste of Joys before unknown: | 20 |
Well might he boast his Pain not lost, | |
For soon he found the Golden Coast; | |
Enjoy’d the Oar, and ’tach’d the shore, | |
Where never Merchant went before. | |