| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | The Willing Mistress | | By Aphra Behn (1640–1689) |
| | (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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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? | | | | |
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