Lyric Love an Anthology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lyric Love an Anthology

Whilst touching upon these matters one may note the frequency with which an otherwise harmless exercise in amatory verse is marred, for us modems, by physiological flowers of rhetoric which the mere caprices of time have made archaic and grotesque. In Shakespeare himself the mention of the liver as the seat and residence of amorous desire is far from being uncommon; and when Francis Beaumont writes, Did all the shafts in thy fair quiver Stick fast in my ambitious liver, Yet thy power would I adore, etc.

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