<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457126" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cupid Mistaken</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As after noon, one summer's day, <br>Venus stood bathing in a river; <br>Cupid a-shooting went that way, <br>New strung his bow, new fill'd his quiver. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With skill he chose his sharpest dart: <br>With all his might his bow he drew: <br>Swift to his beauteous parent's heart <br>The too well-guided arrow flew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I faint! I die! the Goddess cry'd: <br>O cruel, could'st thou find none other, <br>To wreck thy spleen on? Parricide! <br>Like Nero, thou hast slain thy mother. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor Cupid sobbing scarce could speak; <br>Indeed, Mamma, I did not know ye: <br>Alas! how easy my mistake? <br>I took you for your likeness, Cloe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457126" data-title="Cupid Mistaken de Matthew Prior" data-description="As after noon, one summer's day, Venus stood bathing in a river; Cupid a-shooting went that way, New strung his bow, new fill'd his quiver. With skill he chose his sharpest dart: With all his might his bow he drew: Swift to his beauteous pa..."></div> </div> </div>

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