O Cupid, Cupid; Get Your Bow!
O Cupid, Cupid; Get Your Bow! - meaning Summary
Rustic Romantic Pursuit
A rural narrator watches a squatter’s daughter glide by the stream and expresses immediate, ardent attraction. He idealizes her beauty and grace, repeatedly invoking Cupid to strike so she will come to him. The poem frames desire as a lively, hopeful pursuit set in pastoral surroundings, mixing playful urgency with romantic admiration rather than serious longing or consummation.
Read Complete AnalysesArming down along the stream, Along the sparkling water, And past the pool where lilies gleam, There comes the squatter’s daughter. Her eyes are kind; her lips are warm; And like a flower her face is; The habit shows her bonny form As graceful as a Grace’s. O I’ll be mad of love, I know; My head she’ll surely addle; O Cupid, Cupid; get your bow; And shoot her from the saddle! For, like a bird on breezes waft, She quickly, quickly passes; O Cupid, Cupid, draw your shaft; And bring her to the grasses! O she is worthy game for you; And there is none to match her. So, Cupid, send your arrow true; And I’ll be there to catch her!
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