Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the Island of Love. By Mrs A. Behn |
Song to Ceres. In the Wavering Nymph, or Mad Amyntas.
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Poems upon several occasions | ||
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Song to Ceres. In the Wavering Nymph, or Mad Amyntas.
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Ceres , Great Goddess of the bounteous Year,Who load'st the Teeming Earth with Gold and Grain,
Blessing the Labours of th'Industrious Swain,
And to their Plaints inclin'st thy gracious Ear:
Behold two fair Cicilian Lovers lie
Prostrate before thy Deity;
Imploring thou wilt grant the Just Desires
Of two Chaste Hearts that burn with equal Fires.
II
Amyntas he, brave, generous and young;Whom yet no Vice his Youth has e'er betray'd:
And Chaste Urania is the Lovely Maid;
His Daughter who has serv'd thy Altars long,
As thy High Priest: A Dowry he demands
At the young Amorous Shepherds hands:
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E'er the Bright Maid he can from thee receive.
Poems upon several occasions | ||