Kiss I Comments
When young Ascanius, by the Queen of Love,
Was born to sweet Cythera's lofty grove,
His languid limbs upon a couch she laid,
A fragrant couch! of new-blown vi'lets made;
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Born Jan Everaerts in The Hague, his father Nicolaes Everaerts was a well known jurist and friend of Erasmus.
This poem Kiss 1 draws my attention. He has a Latin nmae for his being as Poet, I discover he had an ordinary Dutch family name
I am proud to know thta this Dutch Poet is chosen by Poem HUnter And Team as The Poet Of The Day. Congratulations to his family in the Netherlands. I am proud because he is Dutch thus born in the country where I reside.
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1/12/2026 5:03:36 PM # 1.0.0
He died very young 24 years old, the same age as John Keats died in his own era. Saddest to kow this.