To ------- [for later]

Question 1

Had I a man’s fair form, then might my sighs

Answer 1

Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell
Thine ear, and find thy gentle heart; so well

Question 2

Would passion arm me for the enterprise;
But ah! I am no knight whose foeman dies;

Answer 2

No cuirass glistens on my bosom’s swell;
I am no happy shepherd of the dell

Question 3

Whose lips have trembled with a maiden’s eyes.
Yet must I dote upon thee—call thee sweet,

Answer 3

Sweeter by far than Hybla’s honied roses
When steep’d in dew rich to intoxication.

Question 4

Ah! I will taste that dew, for me ‘tis meet,

Answer 4

And when the moon her pallid face discloses,
I’ll gather some by spells, and incantation.