<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457129" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cupid's Promise - Paraphrased</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soft Cupid, wanton, amorous boy,<br>The other day, moved with my lyre,<br>In flattering accents spoke his joy,<br>And uttered thus his fond desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! raise thy voice, one song I ask,<br>Touch then th' harmonious string;<br>To Thyrsis easy is the task,<br>Who can so sweetly play and sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two kisses from my mother dear,<br>Thyrsis, thy due reward shall be;<br>None, none like Beauty's queen is fair;<br>Paris has vouch'd this truth for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I straight reply'd, thou know'st alone,<br>That brightest Cloe rules my breast,<br>I'll sing thee two instead of one<br>If thou'lt be kind and make me blest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One kiss from Cloe's lips, no more<br>I crave. He promised me success;<br>I play'd with all my skill and power,<br>My glowing passion to express.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, oh! my Cloe, beauteous maid,<br>Wilt thou the wish'd reward bestow?<br>Wilt thou make good what Love has said,<br>And by thy grant his power show?</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=457129" data-title="Cupid's Promise - Paraphrased de Matthew Prior" data-description="Soft Cupid, wanton, amorous boy, The other day, moved with my lyre, In flattering accents spoke his joy, And uttered thus his fond desire. Oh! raise thy voice, one song I ask, Touch then th' harmonious string; To Thyrsis easy is the task, Who can..."></div> </div> </div>

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