Love

To Cupid (Fond Love, deliver up thy Bow)

by Charles Cotton 1630–1687

From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

Love

Fond Love, deliver up thy Bow,
I am become more Love than thou;
I am as wanton grown, and wild,
Much less a Man, and more a Child,
From Venus born, of chaster kind,
A better Archer, though as blind.

Surrender without more adoe,
I am both King and Subject too,
I will command, but must obey,
I am the Hunter and the Prey,
I vanquish, yet am overcome,
And Sentencing receive my Doom.

MLA

Cotton, Charles. “To Cupid (Fond Love, deliver up thy Bow).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/44/.

Chicago

Cotton, Charles. “To Cupid (Fond Love, deliver up thy Bow).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/44/.

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