<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360745" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXXIII: Venus Victrix</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could Juno's self more sovereign presence wear<br>Than thou, 'mid other ladies throned in grace?—<br>Or Pallas, when thou bend'st with soul-stilled face<br>O'er poet's page gold-shadowed in thy hair?<br>Dost thou than Venus seem less heavenly fair<br>When o'er the sea of love's tumultuous trance<br>Hovers thy smile, and mingles with thy glance<br>That sweet voice like the last wave murmuring there?<br>Before such triune loveliness divine<br>Awestruck I ask, which goddess here most claims<br>The prize that, howsoe'er adjudged, is thine?<br>Then Love breathes low the sweetest of thy names;<br>And Venus Victrix to my heart doth bring<br>Herself, the Helen of her guerdoning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360745" data-title="Sonnet XXXIII: Venus Victrix de Dante Gabriel Rossetti" data-description="Could Juno's self more sovereign presence wear Than thou, 'mid other ladies throned in grace?— Or Pallas, when thou bend'st with soul-stilled face O'er poet's page gold-shadowed in thy hair? Dost thou than Venus seem less heavenly fair When o'er..."></div> </div> </div>

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