T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
The Grove
By John Oldmixon (16731742)O ’TIS sweet, ’tis wondrous sweet | |
When I and Amaryllis meet | |
In a fragrant shady grove, | |
Full of wishes, full of love. | |
O what pretty things we say! | 5 |
How the minutes fly away! | |
When, with glances mingling kisses, | |
We prepare for softer blisses; | |
On some mossy bank we lie, | |
Play and touch, embrace and die; | 10 |
Then from little feuds and jars | |
We proceed to amorous wars; | |
O how many heavens we find! | |
I am young and she is kind, | |
Kind and free without design, | 15 |
Mine at will and only mine; | |
Smiling always, always toying, | |
Ever fond, yet never cloying. | |
Could the coldest hermit see | |
Half the sweets enjoyed by me; | 20 |
Happy once to see her eyes, | |
Press her lips and hear her sighs, | |
Clasp her waist and touch her skin, | |
Soon he would forget the sin: | |
All his darling hopes of bliss | 25 |
In a distant Paradise, | |
All with ease he would resign | |
For a minute’s taste of mine. | |