John Drinkwater

Venus in Arden

Now Love, her mantle thrown,
 
Goes naked by,
Threading the woods alone,
 
Her royal eye
Happy because the primroses again
Break on the winter continence of men.
 
I saw her pass to-day
 
In Warwickshire,
With the old imperial way,
 
The old desire,
Fresh as among those other flowers they went
More beautiful for Adon’s discontent.
 
Those other years she made
 
Her festival
When the blue eggs were laid
 
And lambs were tall,
By the Athenian rivers while the reeds
Made love melodious for the Ganymedes.
 
And now through Cantlow brakes,
 
By Wilmcote hill,
To Avon-side, she makes
 
Her garlands still,
And I who watch her flashing limbs am one
With youth whose days three thousand years
are done.
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