T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
The Willing Mistress
By Aphra Behn (16401689)(Poems, 1697) AMYNTAS led me to a Grove, | |
Where all the Trees did shade us; | |
The Sun itself, though it had Strove, | |
It could not have betray’d us: | |
The place secur’d from humane Eyes, | 5 |
No other fear allows, | |
But when the Winds that gently rise, | |
Do Kiss the yielding Boughs. | |
Down there we sat upon the Moss, | |
And did begin to play | 10 |
A Thousand Amorous Tricks, to pass | |
The heat of all the day. | |
A many Kisses he did give: | |
And I return’d the same | |
Which made me willing to receive | 15 |
That which I dare not name. | |
His Charming Eyes no Aid requir’d | |
To tell their softning Tale; | |
On her that was already fir’d, | |
’Twas Easy to prevail. | 20 |
He did but Kiss and Clasp me round, | |
Whilst those his thoughts Expressed: | |
And lay’d me gently on the Ground; | |
Ah! who can guess the rest? | |