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BOTTICELLI'S 'PRIMAVERA', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Handmaids of the queen of love
Last Line: All the world is love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano


HANDMAIDS of the Queen of Love!
Earth grows white with stars;
Young Fertility is leaping,
Soft the springing grasses teem;
Slothful days have left their sleeping --
You alone do dream!

Maidens of the Queen of Flowers!
Trees hang orange lamps;
All the winds are pollen blowing;
Through the failing golden light
Gentle Gravity is going --
Passion is the Night!

Maidens of the silver feet!
Violent Spring's awake!
Hearts are seeking, birds are nesting;
Earth below and skies above
Teach the hour of sweet unresting: --
All the world is Love!





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