Love
Cupid and Campaspe
From The Golden Treasury, ed. F. T. Palgrave (1861)
Love
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses; Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his lip, the rose
Growing on's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow,
And then the dimple on his chin;
All these did my Campaspe win:
At last he set her both his eyes--
She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?
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Lyly, John. “Cupid and Campaspe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lyly/0/.
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Lyly, John. “Cupid and Campaspe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lyly/0/.
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