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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478191" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homer's Hymn To Venus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,<br>Who wakens with her smile the lulled delight<br>Of sweet desire, taming the eternal kings<br>Of Heaven, and men, and all the living things<br>That fleet along the air, or whom the sea, <br>Or earth, with her maternal ministry,<br>Nourish innumerable, thy delight<br>All seek ... O crowned Aphrodite!<br>Three spirits canst thou not deceive or quell:--<br>Minerva, child of Jove, who loves too well <br>Fierce war and mingling combat, and the fame<br>Of glorious deeds, to heed thy gentle flame.<br>Diana ... golden-shafted queen,<br>Is tamed not by thy smiles; the shadows green<br>Of the wild woods, the bow, the...<br>And piercing cries amid the swift pursuit<br>Of beasts among waste mountains,--such delight<br>Is hers, and men who know and do the right.<br>Nor Saturn’s first-born daughter, Vesta chaste,<br>Whom Neptune and Apollo wooed the last,<br>Such was the will of aegis-bearing Jove;<br>But sternly she refused the ills of Love,<br>And by her mighty Father’s head she swore<br>An oath not unperformed, that evermore<br>A virgin she would live mid deities <br>Divine: her father, for such gentle ties<br>Renounced, gave glorious gifts--thus in his hall<br>She sits and feeds luxuriously. O’er all<br>In every fane, her honours first arise<br>From men--the eldest of Divinities. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These spirits she persuades not, nor deceives,<br>But none beside escape, so well she weaves<br>Her unseen toils; nor mortal men, nor gods<br>Who live secure in their unseen abodes.<br>She won the soul of him whose fierce delight <br>Is thunder--first in glory and in might.<br>And, as she willed, his mighty mind deceiving,<br>With mortal limbs his deathless limbs inweaving,<br>Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair,<br>Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare.<br>but in return,<br>In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken,<br>That by her own enchantments overtaken,<br>She might, no more from human union free,<br>Burn for a nursling of mortality.<br>For once amid the assembled Deities,<br>The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shot forth the light of a soft starlight smile,<br>And boasting said, that she, secure the while,<br>Could bring at Will to the assembled Gods<br>The mortal tenants of earth’s dark abodes,<br>And mortal offspring from a deathless stem<br>She could produce in scorn and spite of them.<br>Therefore he poured desire into her breast<br>Of young Anchises,<br>Feeding his herds among the mossy fountains<br>Of the wide Ida’s many-folded mountains,--<br>Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung<br>Like wasting fire her senses wild among.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Percy+Bysshe+Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a><div class=q>
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Of sweet desire, taming the eternal kings
Of Heaven, and men, and all the living things
That fleet along the air, or whom the sea, 
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