Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | III. Love’s Beginnings | | Cupid and Campaspe | | John Lyly (1555?–1606) |
| | From “Alexander and Campaspe,” Act III. Sc. 5. |
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CUPID and my Campaspe played | |
| At cards for kisses,—Cupid paid; | |
| He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, | |
| His mother’s doves, and team of sparrows,— | |
| Loses them too; then down he throws | 5 |
| The coral of his lip, the rose | |
| Growing on ’s cheek (but none knows how); | |
| With these the crystal of his brow, | |
| And then the dimple of his chin,— | |
| All these did my Campaspe win. | 10 |
| At last he set her both his eyes; | |
| She won, and Cupid blind did rise. | |
| O Love! has she done this to thee? | |
| What shall, alas! become of me? | | | |
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