<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537552" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By Moschus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I slept when Venus enter'd: to my bed<br>A Cupid in her beauteous hand she led,<br>A bashful seeming boy, and thus she said:<br>'Shepherd, receive my little one! I bring<br>An untaught love, whom thou must teach to sing.'<br>She said, and left him. I, suspecting nought,<br>Many a sweet strain my subtle pupil taught,<br>How reed to reed Pan first with osier bound,<br>How Pallas form'd the pipe of softest sound,<br>How Hermes gave the lute, and how the quire<br>Of Phoebus owe to Phoebus' self the lyre.<br>Such were my themes; my themes nought heeded he<br>But ditties sang of amorous sort to me.<br>The pangs that mortals and immortals prove<br>From Venus' influence and the darts of love.<br>Thus was the teacher by the pupil taught;<br>His lessons I retain'd, he mine forgot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537552" data-title="By Moschus de William Cowper" data-description="I slept when Venus enter'd: to my bed A Cupid in her beauteous hand she led, A bashful seeming boy, and thus she said: 'Shepherd, receive my little one! I bring An untaught love, whom thou must teach to sing.' She said, and left him. I, suspecting..."></div> </div> </div>

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