Friday, May 6, 2016

Two Hymns to Love


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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