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T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.

The Enjoyment

Anonymous

(From Miscellany Poems, 1709)

YE Gods! the raptures of that night!
What fierce convulsions of delight!
How in each other’s arms involv’d,
We lay confounded, and dissolved:
Bodies mingling, sexes blending,	5
Which should most be lost contending,
Darting fierce and flaming kisses,
Plunging into boundless blisses;
Our bodies, and our souls on fire,
Tost by a tempest of Desire;	10
Till with utmost fury driven,
Down, at once, we sunk to heaven.