That shortsighted one sees but the bank that from thee is flying,
Not the one which ere long thou wilt attain with bold flight.
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Vigor in man I expect, the law in its honors maintaining,But, through the graces alone, woman e’er rules or should rule.Many, indeed, have ruled through the might of the spirit and action,But then thou noblest of crowns, they were deficient in thee.No real queen exists but the womanly beauty of woman;Where it appears, it must…
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals;
Once and once only could love prevail on the ruler of shadows,And on the threshold, e’en then, sternly his gift he recalled.Venus could never heal the wounds of the beauteous stripling,That the terrible boar made in his delicate skin;Nor could his mother immortal preserve the hero so godlike,When at the west gate of Troy, falling,…
Hear I the creaking gate unclose?
No–’twas the wind that, whirring, rose,Amidst the poplars drifted!Adorn thyself, thou green leaf-bowering roof,Destined the bright one’s presence to receive,For her, a shadowy palace-hall aloofWith holy night, thy boughs familiar weave.And ye sweet flatteries of the delicate air,Awake and sport her rosy cheek around,When their light weight the tender feet shall bear,When beauty comes to…
Honor to woman! To her it is given
All blessed, she linketh the loves in their choirIn the veil of the graces her beauty concealing,She tends on each altar that’s hallowed to feeling,And keeps ever-living the fire!From the bounds of truth careering,Man’s strong spirit wildly sweeps,With each hasty impulse veeringDown to passion’s troubled deeps.And his heart, contented never,Greeds to grapple with the far,Chasing…