Listen to:
Two Hymns to Love (1:04)
by Robert Herrick
performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode
A Short Hymn to Venus
Goddess, I do love a Girl
Ruby-lipp’d, and tooth’d with Pearl:
If so be, I may but prove
Lucky in the Maid I love:
I will promise there shall be
Myrtles offer’d up to Thee.
A Hymn to Venus and Cupid
Sea-born Goddess, let me be
By thy son thus grac'd, and thee;
That whene’er I woo, I find
Virgins coy, but not unkind.
Let me, when I kiss a maid,
Taste her lips, so over-laid
With Love-syrup, that I may,
In your Temple, when I pray,
Kiss the Altar, and confess
There’s in love no bitterness.
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