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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUT OF THE ITALIAN, by VALERIO MARCELLINI
First Line: Would any one the true cause find
Last Line: And so he lost his clothes, eyes, heart and all.
Variant Title(s): Cupid Blind And Naked
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros
First Line: Would any one the true cause find
Last Line: And so he lost his clothes, eyes, heart and all.
Variant Title(s): Cupid Blind And Naked
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros
Would any one the true cause find
How Love came nak't, a Boy, and blind?
'Tis this; listning one day too long,
To th' Syrens in my Mistresse Song,
The extasie of a delight
So much o're-mastring all his might
To that one Sense, made all else thrall,
And so he lost his Clothes, eyes, heart and all.
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