Opis: Divine Adventures - Niendorff John

Excerpt from Divine Adventures: A Book of Verse

Cupid and Psyche

(The Spirit of the Tale)

To M.

For in the morning of our love, there came
The spirit singing such entrancing notes,
As sweeps the whole empyrian with a flame,
Wherein, a dream, pure lofty pleasure floats,
And love and beauty find their mellow throats,
In glorious fervor, drinking from the golden bowl,
The wine of joy that binds them soul to soul,
Thou art my muse and thine the phantasy
With spirit hand to guide unconsciously.
For all I bring thee, minion of thy beauty,
This little garland of a memory fruity -
A simple tale, as old as love is old,
Of virgin art within a golden mold,
Still burning, molten, shying unto glory -
A matchless song and yet a simple story.
How mischief led a cold unwitting boy
Along new paths to taste a sudden joy;
How curious Love asport from flower to flower,
Hath found a sense too sweet to overpower,
And yet such magic sweet, that once is tasted,
A moment otherwheres were eons wasted;
How Cupid, wandering in a lovely valley
With arrowed bow, by many a maid must dally,
Till Psyche, like a prisms ingathered hues,
Into a sudden virgin light he woos.
Sweet Psyche princes in a golden land,
And Princess still from bounding strand to strand,
The fairest maid of any. Cupid heavenly born.
Fair son of Beauty's queen, whom to adorn,

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Szczegóły: Divine Adventures - Niendorff John

Nazwa: Divine Adventures A Book of Verse (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Niendorff John
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332523641
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 78
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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