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100 1 _aLloyd, J. Wm.
_q(John William),
_d1857-1940
245 1 0 _aSongs of the unblind Cupid
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-20
508 _aCharlene Taylor, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aSongs of the unblind Cupid by J. Wm. Lloyd is a collection of lyric poems and brief aphorisms written in the late 19th century. It is a poetic meditation on love in its sensual, spiritual, and ethical aspects, likely focused on desire, freedom, tenderness, and the moral imagination of affection. The sequence moves from an opening call for an “unblind” Cupid to poems that dramatize love’s many faces: a woman’s wholehearted offering in The Cactus Flower; a catalog of love’s opposites in Love; a playful fable in Love A-Limping where Venus consoles a bruised Cupid; and crisp interludes that pronounce on liberty, fidelity, and the nature of passion. Love is praised as the true fountain of youth, and imagined as gentle, non-possessive care in My Little Bird. Love Is a Vine argues that affection thrives with multiple supports, hinting at a freer, less possessive ideal. The ecstatic ode Violin renders desire, union, and nurture in cascading images, while Magdalen invokes compassion and redemption, urging atonement through wiser loves. Throughout, nature and music metaphors, tender eroticism, and moral clarity weave a unified vision of liberated, responsible love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cWellesley: Calamus House, 1899
653 _aAmerican poetry -- 19th century
653 _aLove -- Poetry
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/songsofunblindcu00lloy/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77744
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