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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=501146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Helen of Troy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mythological beauty, she had been; <br>A legendary beauty, she had grown.<br>Who is it other than Helen of Troy, <br>The epitome of seductive beauty? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A symbol of man’s erotic desires, <br>From the other women, Helen differs<br>In that she never employed her charms<br>To gain power of self-aggrandizement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her era dates back to fifth century B.C.<br>The fairest of women had been the one<br>Whom all women should hate and yet envy, <br>And all men should fear and yet desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No wonder, men were captive of her charm, <br>But not was she captive of any man..<br>She had admirers; none did she admire.<br>Her fairness deserved more than what she got.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A puppet she was in the heavenly battle, <br>Where Greek Gods and Goddesses had sported.<br>As such, she must be absolved of the taints<br>She was attached with, sadistically.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, <br>The Greek God and Goddess. Born of an egg, <br>And brought up by a shepherd, she became<br>The prince of Sparta, a kingdom’f the Greek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At her age ten, Helen was kidnapped<br>By an Athenian Hero for her charm<br>And was, however, brought back unscathed<br>By her brother; so famous she became.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Helen’s wedding, numerous suitors<br>From far and wide came to claim her fair hand.<br>They were made to swear an oath to defend<br>The chosen husband in the event of</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A rival attempting to abduct Helen, <br>The beauty who bred danger where she trod.<br>The oath assumed a greater importance<br>In the development of the Trojan War.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helen was married to Menelaus, <br>A warrior, on his highest offerings.<br>On king’s death, he became the king of Sparta.<br>Helen bore a daughter; nine years rolled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paris, a Trojan Prince, came to Sparta<br>To marry Helen, whom he had been promised<br>By Aphrodite, after he had chosen her<br>As the fairest of all the goddesses </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that she could claim the golden apple<br>Thrown by the Goddess, Eris, from anger<br>Of not being invited by King Peleus<br>For his marriage to Sea Nymph Thetis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once Paris arrived in the house, <br>And Menelaus was fated to leave it, <br>Helen eloped with Paris to Trojan.<br>The war broke, all suitors participated</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The war lasting for over nine years, <br>Helen lived these years as a willing captive, <br>More to the design of Aphrodite. <br>It is unfair to brand her as unfaithful..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The end of the war was brought about<br>Through the Trojan horse built and left ashore, <br>With their heroes hidden in it. The foes<br>Drew the horse into the fort for their fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The heroes sacked the city and captured<br>And caged the fairest queen to her shame.<br>The Greeks and the Trojans despised her alike.<br>No woman of her status could be that worst.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Menelaus was to slay his faithless wife.<br>As he raised his sword, , she dropped her robe<br>From her shoulders, revealing her assets.<br>It made him let the sword dropp from his hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helen defied Aphrodite to remain<br>With Paris, who was soon to meet his death.<br>Her woes about her hasty decision<br>To leave Sparta and her spouse crippled her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I will not serve his bed since the Trojan women<br>Hereafter would laugh at me, all, and my heart<br>Even now is confused with sorrow’<br>Helen lamented thus to Aphrodite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helen returned as the queen of Sparta.<br>Chastity, outraged, could be recovered; <br>Women are resilient, given a chance.<br>Helen is a proof for all men to note.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How Helen looked, no clues; <br>Yet her name has power<br>To inflame men’s heart, ho! <br>20.08.2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Aphrodite is Greek Goddess her counterpart is Venus.<br>Zeus is Greek God, his counterpart is Jupiter.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</a><div class=q>
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A legendary beauty, she had grown.
Who is it other than Helen of Troy, 
The epitome of seductive beauty? 

A symbol of man’s erotic desires, 
From the other women, Helen differs
In that she never employed he..."></div>
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