English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 52. Cupid and Campaspe |
| | | John Lyly (1553–1606) |
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| CUPID and my Campaspe play’d | |
| At cards for kisses—Cupid paid: | |
| He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, | |
| His mother’s doves, and team of sparrows; | |
| Loses them too; then down he throws | 5 |
| The coral of his lip, the rose | |
| Growing on’s cheek (but none knows how); | |
| With these, the crystal of his brow, | |
| And then the dimple of his chin: | |
| All these did my Campaspe win. | 10 |
| At last he set her both his eyes— | |
| She won, and Cupid blind did rise. | |
| O Love! has she done this for thee? | |
| What shall, alas! become of me? | |
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