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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN
First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white
Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean
First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white
Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean
Pause age-old search for Aphrodite, white
As purity. Begot of ocean's foam,
Beside this stream at twilight's purple gloam
She sleeps beneath the spangled roof of night
Waking to robe herself in ceruse light
When young Apollo and the muses come
Driving the shadow-hosts of Hades home
Across dim hills of rose and malachite.
Her slippered feet sound in the symphony
Of water moving on moss-covered stone,
Her voice the stream's insistent undertone,
Illusive echo of far distant sea
That gave her birth, white Aphrodite known
To those who do not live by bread alone.
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