To the Fair Clorinda
Aphra Behn
1640 to 1689
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WHO MADE LOVE TO ME,
IMAGIN’D MORE THAN WOMAN
______ lovely Maid, or if that Title be
Too weak, ______ Feminine for Nobler thee,
Permit a Name that more ______ Truth:
And let me call thee, Lovely Charming Youth.
______ last will justifie my soft complainte,
While that may ______ to lessen my constraint;
And without Blushes I the ______ persue,
When so much beauteous Woman is in view
______ thy Charms we struggle but in vain
With thy ______ Form thou giv’st us pain,
While the bright Nymph ______ us to the Swain.
In pity to our Sex ______ thou wer’t sent,
That we might Love, and yet ______ Innocent:
For sure no Crime with thee we can commit;
Or if we shou’d – thy Form excuses it.
______ who, that gathers fairest Flowers believes
A Snake lies ______ beneath the Fragrant Leaves.
Thou beauteous Wonder of ______ different kind,
Soft Cloris with the dear Alexis join’d;
______ e’er the Manly part of thee, wou’d plead
Thou ______ us with the Image of the Maid,
While we ______ noblest Passions do extend
The Love to Hermes, Aphrodite ______ Friend.