Ode 30: The Voluntary Captive

by Judson France Davidson
Once Love by the fair Muses being caught
Flower-bound to Beauty was brought.

Venus without her darling ill at ease
Now seeks him to release

With ransoms; but endeavours all are vain,
For Eros hugs his chain.

From Beauty parted he'll no longer dwell,
He loves his serfdom well.
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Poets of The Anacreontea
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