| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | “A Gentle Breeze from the Lavinian Sea” | | Anonymous |
| | (From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719)
A GENTLE Breeze from the Lavinian Sea, | |
| Was gliding o’er the Coast of Sicily; | |
| When lulled with soft Repose, a prostrate Maid, | |
| Upon her bended Arm had raised her Head: | |
| Her Soul was all tranquil and smooth with Rest, | 5 |
| Like the harmonious Slumbers of the Blest. | |
| Wrapped up in Silence, innocent she lay, | |
| And pressed the Flow’rs with Touch as soft as they. | |
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| My thoughts in gentless Sounds she did impart, | |
| Heightened by all the Graces of that Art; | 10 |
| And as I sung, I grasped her yielding Thighs, | |
| Till broken Accents faultered into Sighs: | |
| I kissed and wished, and foraged all her store, | |
| Yet wallowing in the Pleasure, I was poor; | |
| No kind Relief my Agonies could ease, | 15 |
| I groaned, and cursed Religious Cruelties. | |
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| The trembling Nymph all o’er Confusion lay, | |
| Her melting Looks in sweet Disorder play; | |
| Her Colour varies, and her Breath’s oppressed, | |
| And all her Faculties are dispossessed, | 20 |
| At last impetuously her Pulses move, | |
| She gives a mighty Loose to stifled Love; | |
| Then murmurs in a soft Complaint, and cries, | |
| Alas! and thus in soft Convulsions dies. | | | | |
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