RICARDO DE ALVARO

Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed,

And rein his proud head to the saddle-bow;

If thou wilt deign this favour, for thy meed

A thousand honey secrets shalt thou know:

Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,

And being set, I´ill smother thee with kisses;

 

And yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety,

But rather famish them amid their plenty,

Making them red and pale with fresh variety;

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty:

A summer´s day will seem an hour but short,

Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport.

 

Venus and Adonis. W. Shakespeare