Sodoma The Grand Duke's Palace at Weimar 'TIS Leda lovely, wild and free, Drawing her gracious Swan down through the grass to see Certain round eggs without a speck : One hand plunged in the reeds and one dinting the downy neck, Although his hectoring bill Gapes toward her tresses, She draws the fondled creature to her will. She joys to bend in the live light Her glistening body toward her love, how much more bright ! Though on her breast the sunshine lies And spreads its affluence on the wide curves of her waist and thighs, To her meek, smitten gaze Where her hand presses The Swan's white neck sink Heaven's concentred rays. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR AN ALLEGORICAL DANCE OF WOMEN (BY ANDREA MANTEGNA) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ON A PIECE OF TAPESTRY by GEORGE SANTAYANA CORRYMEELA by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GRANT by HENRY ABBEY A HYMN TO JESUS by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX A SWEET CONTENTION BETWEEN LOVE, HIS MISTRESS, AND BEAUTY by NICHOLAS BRETON |