| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | A Song from “The Banished Cavalier” | | By Aphra Behn (1640–1689) |
| | | 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. | |
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| 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, | |
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| 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. | | | | |
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