T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
“When First Amyntas Su’d 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. | |