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INDEX/BCMSV/1364

1719 (published)

Love poem complaining that a girl will tantalisingly allow only the briefest

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INDEX/BCMSV/1365

1719 (published)

Love poem, asserting that the happiness enjoyed by the gods in heaven cannot compare with that of kissing his beloved. Imitating Johannes Secundus's

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INDEX/BCMSV/1366

1719 (published)

Description of physical passion and the incomparable happiness of kissing and

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INDEX/BCMSV/1367

1719 (published)

Love poem, complaining that his beloved will allow him only a fixed number of kisses whereas his sighs are innumerable. Imitating Johannes Secundus's

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INDEX/BCMSV/1368

1719 (published)

Love poem in which his beloved judges that he is wrongly criticised for describing kisses of such passionate happiness. Imitating Johannes Secundus's

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INDEX/BCMSV/1369

1719 (published)

On how a kiss from his beloved preserves him from death after making love, until they can die together in their passion. Imitating Johannes Secundus's

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INDEX/BCMSV/1370

1719 (published)

Love poem, attributing his beloved's coldness, despite her kisses, to Cupid's decision never to send his arrow into one so beautiful. Imitating Johannes

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INDEX/BCMSV/1371

1719 (published)

Love poem, on the beauty of his beloved's lips after a night of kissing.

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt 88

c. 1731

Comprises a copy of "Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or the kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague, in Latin and English verse", London, 1731, with ten English love poems by Thomas ...