Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SLEEPING PRIESTESS OF APHRODITE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poet's Biography First Line: She dreams of love upon the temple stair Last Line: In all the drowsy, warm, sicilian air. | ||||||||
SHE dreams of Love upon the temple stair, -- About her feet the lithe green lizards play In all the drowsy, warm, Sicilian air. The winds have loosed the fillet from her hair, Sea winds, salt-lipped, that laugh and seem to say, "She dreams of Love, upon the temple stair. "Then let us twine soft fingers, here and there, Amid the gleaming threads that drift and stray In all the drowsy, warm, Sicilian air, "And let us weave of them a subtle snare To cast about and bind her, as to-day She dreams of Love, upon the temple stair." Alas, the madcap winds, -- how much they dare! They wove the web, and in their wanton way, In all the drowsy, warm, Sicilian air, They bound her sleeping, in her own bright hair. And as she slept came Love -- and passed away, -- She dreams of Love, upon the temple stair, In all the drowsy, warm, Sicilian air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HEALTH AT THE FORD by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS A OUTRANCE (FRANCE, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS AFTER THE GREAT WIND by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS BALLAD OF ERRANT VESPERS by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS DOUBT by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS ISOTTA (DETTA LA DIVINA) by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS LAST NIGHT by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS LINES by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS LOVE'S CUP by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS REVERIE by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS |
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