T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Beauty, Since You So Much Desire
By Thomas Campion (1567–1620)| BEAUTY, since you so much desire | |
| To know the place of Cupid’s fire, | |
| About you somewhere doth it rest, | |
| Yet never harbour’d in your breast, | |
| Nor gout-like in your heel or toe,— | 5 |
| What fool would seek Love’s flame so low? | |
| But a little higher, but a little higher, | |
| There, there, O there lies Cupid’s fire. | |
| Think not, when Cupid most you scorn, | |
| Men judge that you of ice were born; | 10 |
| For though you cast love at your heel, | |
| His fury yet sometimes you feel: | |
| And whereabouts if you would know, | |
| I tell you still not in your toe: | |
| But a little higher, but a little higher, | 15 |
| There, there, O there lies Cupid’s fire. | |