| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Song for a Girl | | By John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| | (From Love Triumphant)
YOUNG I am, and yet unskill’d | |
| How to make a Lover yield: | |
| How to keep, or how to gain, | |
| When to love; and when to feign. | |
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| Take me, take me, some of you, | 5 |
| While I yet am young and true; | |
| E’re I can my soul disguise; | |
| Heave my breasts, and roll my eyes. | |
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| Stay not till I learn the way, | |
| How to lie, and to betray: | 10 |
| He that has me first, is blest, | |
| For I may deceive the rest. | |
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| Cou’d I find a blooming youth, | |
| Full of love, and full of truth, | |
| Brisk, and of a jaunty mean | 15 |
| I should long to be fifteen. | | | | |
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