Poems by Johannes Secundus

In various Kisses various charms I find,
For changeful fancy loves each changeful kind:
Whene...

Why wing your flight, ye bees! From flow'r to flow'r?
Why, toiling thus, collect the luscious...

When Cytherea first beheld
Those lips with ruby lustre bright,
Those lips! Which, as they blu...

Roses, refresh'd with nightly dew, display,
New beauties blushing to the dawn of day;
So, ...

Bright as Venus' golden star!
And as silver Cynthia fair!
Nymph, with ev'ry charm replete!
Gi...

Th' Idalian boy, to pierce Neæ ra's heart,
Had bent his bow, had chose the fatal dart; ...

Those tempting lips of scarlet glow,
Why pout with fond, bewitching art?
For to those lips, ...

With am'rous strife exanimate I lay,
Around your neck my languid arm I threw;
My trembling he...

Modest Matrons, Maidens, say,
Why thus turn your looks away?
Frolic feats of lawless love,
...

"Some think my kisses too luxurious told,
"Kisses! They say, not known to sires of old:
"But...

When young Ascanius, by the Queen of Love,
Was born to sweet Cythera's lofty grove,
His lang...

Cease thy sweet, thy balmy Kisses;
Cease thy many-wreathed smiles;
Cease thy melting, murm'...

Ah! What ungovern'd rage, declare,
Neæ ra, too capricious Fair!
What unreveng'd, ungu...

Kisses told by Hundreds o'er!
Thousands told by Thousands more!
Millions! Countless Millions! T...

Two Thousand Kisses of the sweetest kind,
'Twas once agreed, our mutual love should bind;
Fi...