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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VENUS (GODDESS) Matches Found: 76 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF HIGHER ENDEAVOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah night! Blind germ of days to be Last Line: Hey diddle dee! Subject(s): Love;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess) A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A SHORT HYMNE TO VENUS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddesse, I do love a girle Last Line: Mirtles offer'd up to thee. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) A SONG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you tell your parting lover Last Line: Of slighted vows, and cold disdain. Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul; Venus (goddess); Wine A TALISMAN FOR VENUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: 22 47 16 41 10 35 4 Last Line: 46 15 40 9 34 3 28 Subject(s): Jews;magic;mysticism - Judaism;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess); Judaism AFTER PIERO DI COSIMO'S VENUS, MARS, AND AMOR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked on the ground Last Line: Mars's discarded armor. Subject(s): Mars (god); Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus (goddess) ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF VENUS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature forg'd the fair unhappy mould Last Line: Lent gods and men a poison and a hell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Venus (goddess) ALIVD, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should mars and venus have their will Last Line: Venus would keep her friday ill. Subject(s): Mars (god); Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) AN HYMN TO VENUS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O venus, beauty of the skies Last Line: And give me all my heart desires. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) APHRODITE ADIPOSA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady blessington!' cried the glad usher aloud Last Line: A grace after dinner!—a venus grown fat. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women ASTARTE SYRIACA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: lo! Betwixt the sun and moon Last Line: Betwixt the sun and moon a mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess) BIRTH OF EVENTUAL VENUS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast up by the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Venus (goddess) BIRTH OF VENUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Risen in a %welter of waters Last Line: The crisp delightful botticellian wave Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) CANTATA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade Last Line: Cupid does with phoebus reign. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros CICERONIS AMOR: SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mars in a fury 'gainst love's brightest queen Last Line: As can subdue the greatest god in arms. Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus;venus Victrix Subject(s): Charm; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear to ask me, why I weep Last Line: My answer to thy dubious verse. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Mythology - Classical; Riddles; Tears; Venus (goddess) CUPID AND VENUS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From bar to bar, from curb to curb I run Last Line: As the kid, her blind pimp, eggs me on. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women; Women's Rights; Eros; Feminism CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell. Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism DE RERUM NATURE [ON THE NATURE OF THINGS]: INVOCATION OF VENUS, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great venus! Queene of beautie and of grace Last Line: O gaunt that of my love at last I may not misse Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): Prayer To Venu Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children Last Line: "henceforth shall bear." Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano FRAGOLETTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! What shall be said of thee? Last Line: The feet of love. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Nightmares HYMN TO VENUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, sing the deeds of golden aphrodite Last Line: Like wasting fire her senses wild among. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) HYMN TO VENUS. AS THE VIRGINS PASS TO HER GUARDIANSHIP, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be at hand at your rites, dear venus Last Line: Girdle breathes. By whatever your adonis %once said or did to you Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) I PRAY TO VENUS, by ELIZABETH OF YORK Poem Text First Line: My heart is set upon a lusty pin Last Line: This joy and I, I trust, shall never twin. Subject(s): Contentment; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women INVOCATION TO VENUS, FR. DE RERUM NATURA, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling of gods and men, beneath the gliding stars Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) INVOCATION TO VENUS, FR. DE RERUM NATURA, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darling of gods and men, beneath the gliding stars Last Line: With your grace; and give peace to write and read and think Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest isle, all isles excelling Last Line: Those shall be renown'd for love. Variant Title(s): Song Of Venus [in Honour Of Britannia] Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros; Songs LOVE'S LOVERS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Upon the altars of queen venus we Last Line: "for love and thee!" Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion; Venus (goddess); Eros MILADY REFLECTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was known as aphrodite, men Subject(s): Venus (planet); Venus (goddess) NEVER TOO LATE: INFIDA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet adon, dar'st not glance thine eye - Last Line: N'oserez vous, mon bel ami? Variant Title(s): N'oserez Vous, Mon Bel Ami? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And whose immortal hand could shed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Venus (goddess); Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODES I, 30. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O venus, queen of cnidos and of paphos Last Line: And youth, who without you are insufficiently kind, and mercury Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ODES III, 26. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Till recently I lived, satisfying girls Last Line: At scornful chloe, chloe the arrogant Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ODES III, 3. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, I was a sturdy soldier once Last Line: And pay her with a pox! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ODES IV, 1. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more of war: dread cytherea, cease Last Line: O'er pleasant fields and purling streams. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ODES IV, 1. TO VENUS FOR LIGURINUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O venus, why are you renewing Last Line: You, cruel one! Through waves whirling, swirling Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I, my dear, was born today Last Line: Thou, my dear, wert born to-day.' Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Life; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Dead, The ON THE PICTURE OF VENUS BY APELLES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Stand back! While venus quits her ocean home Last Line: Or her wet locks will sprinkle thee with foam Subject(s): Apelles (late 4th C.- Early 3rd C. B.c.;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess) ON VENUS ARISING FROM THE SEA, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charm'd by apelles' magic, here thine eyes Last Line: "with thee 'twere vain in loveliness to vie." Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) PALLAS AND VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trojan swain had judged the great dispute Last Line: By mars himself that armour has been tried. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Venus (goddess) PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (2), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The siren venus nouric'd in her lap Last Line: Rich'd with such flowers as virtue yieldeth thee. Variant Title(s): Adonis Reproved Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth PROTOGENES AND APELLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poets wrote, and painters drew Last Line: That all was full, and round, and fair. Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Venus (goddess); Greeks ROKEBY VENUS, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST Poem Source First Line: Life pours out images, the accidental Last Line: Of our imaginations and our beds Subject(s): Art And Artists; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Venus (goddess) SLEEPING VENUS. GIORGIONE. THE DRESDEN GALLERY, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is venus by our homes Last Line: While the sun strikes on the grass Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess) SOME NAMES OF VENUS FROM LEMPRIERE'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, by DALE SMITH Poem Source First Line: She was called cypria, because particularly Last Line: Wringing tresses on her shoulder Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) SONG: 113, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: And me heartily my whole desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) SONG: 2, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever thou didst joy to bind Last Line: But never, never grant a cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Cupid; Venus (goddess); Eros SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 12. VENUS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: But in warm arms as fragrant as of old Last Line: When in white deathless clasp his soul she took! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 16. VENUS INCARNATE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Upon the old cliff thou stood'st with wondrous eyes Last Line: And charge along the vapour-shrouded sands. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ST. DOROTHY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hath been seen and yet it shall be seen Last Line: That I may one day see her in the face. Subject(s): God; Mythology - Classical; Saints; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat" Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely we knew our darkling shore Last Line: Your powers, one will be carruth Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Risen in a / welter of waters Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather. Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil THE FLYING HOUSE, AND THE MAY QUEEN ETERNAL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen venus, come now, be my heroine Last Line: Even that cautious smile, has hints of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE JUDGEMENT OF TIRESIAS, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: When willing nymphs and swains unite / in quest of amorous delight Last Line: That party best obtains its end. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE JUDGMENT OF VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When kneller's works of various grace Last Line: Or venus must to hyde. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE SHRINE OF VENUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small is the chapel where I make my home Last Line: In love's wild storms, or on the raging sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE SHRINE OF VENUS, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Fair aphrodite, from this marble fane Last Line: Beholds her image, and is lull'd asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques THE VESTAL'S DREAM, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, venus, white-limbed mother of delight Last Line: And lights with silver torch the fallen fire. Subject(s): Innocence; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE ZONE OF VENUS, by ANTIPHANES Poem Text First Line: When venus loosed the cestus of desire Last Line: But thou hast used-it against me alone! Subject(s): Desire; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From public noise and factious strife Last Line: Love is a jest, and vows are wind. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth; Paradise TO VENUS, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of figure very graceful, with amorous look, correct Last Line: Are taken under the green wave; then why shouldst thou despair? Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) VENUS IN ARDEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English VENUS MISTAKEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cloe's picture was to venus shown Last Line: Friend howard's genius fancied all the rest. Subject(s): Cupid; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess); Eros VENUS TRANSIENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful Last Line: The sands at my feet. Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VENUS VERTICORDIA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She hath the apple in her hand for thee Last Line: And through her dark grove strike the light of troy. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Venus (for A Picture) Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess) VENUS'S ADVICE TO THE MUSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the muses spoke the cyprian dame Last Line: But, when he finds us studying hard, he flies.' Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Venus (goddess) VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I marked where lovely venus and her court Last Line: His toil, and laught and hoped and was content. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) VENUS, I DON'T NEED YOU, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Let's face it, venus Last Line: And virtually no one is interested in your notion of voluptuous Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sex; Venus (goddess) VIGIL OF VENUS, SELS., by PERVIGILIUM VENERIS Poem Source First Line: Let those love now, who never loved before Last Line: And as he breathes, her glowing fires arise Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) WATER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water-venus in dissolving beauty Last Line: From living waters into birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Venus (goddess); Ocean |
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