John Wilmot Quotes
Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.
Citations
Wilmot, John. "Song (As Chloris full of harmless thought)." The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, edited by David M. Vieth, Yale University Press, 1968, p. 24.
Related Quotes
John Wilmot was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. The Restoration reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. Rochester embodied this new era, and he became as well known for his rakish lifestyle as his poetry, although the two were often interlinked. He died as a result of venereal disease at the age of 33.