| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | The Rapture | | By Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723) |
| | (1683; set by Mr. Thos. Farmer) |
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AS on Serena’s panting Breast | |
| The happy Strephon lay, | |
| With Love and Beauty doubly blest | |
| He past the hours away: | |
| Fierce Raptures of transporting Love, | 5 |
| And pleasure struck him dumb, | |
| He envied not the pow’rs above, | |
| Nor all the joys to come. | |
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| As painful Bees far off do rove, | |
| To bring their Treasure home, | 10 |
| So Strephon ranged the Field of Love, | |
| To make his honey Comb; | |
| Her Ruby lips he sucked and pressed, | |
| From whence all sweets derive, | |
| Then buzzing round her snowy Breast; | 15 |
| Soon crept into the hive. | | | |
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