"And thou, O! dear, delightful bed, The altar where Her maidenhead, With burning cheeks, and down cast eyes, With panting breasts, and kind replies, And other due solemnity, Was offer’d up to love and me."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Poems (1722)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hymen
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Hymen
25 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Hymen →
Related Quotes
"Joy to the Bridegroome and the Bride That lye by one anothers side! O fie upon the Virgin Bedds, No losse is gain but…"
"Earth’s not so coy as you are now. But willingly admits the plow. For how had man or beast been fed, If she had kept …"
"Netts, of passions finest thred, Snaring Poems, will be spred, All, to catch thy maiden-head."
"Teares, quickly fled, And vaine, as those are shed For a dying Maydenhead."
"If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an ev…"
"“Nausicaa, How bare thy mother such a careless child? Neglected all thy rich attire is piled: Yet nigh thy wedding is…"
"I throw my apple towards you. If you will love me, take it And give me in repayment your own maidenhead: If your will…"
"All day I heard your high heart-broken laughter, swallow, and, hearing, cried, ‘Is there no place or time when you fo…"
"Why hoard your maidenhood? There’ll not be found A lad to love you, girl, under the ground. Love’s joys are for the q…"
"Lasses like Autumne Plums did drop, And Lads, indifferently did crop A Flower, and a Maiden-head."