Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE NEW APHRODITE, by WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT


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First Line: Out of the deep sea - stream
Last Line: Daughter of god.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


OUT of the deep sea-stream,
Into the light and the air,
Rose like a gracious dream
Venus the fair.

How much of sorrow and rue,
How much of joy and peace,
Sprang that day from the blue
Waters of Greece!

Oh, from a Cyclad's verge,
Or swift galley's prow, to have seen
Her, the world's wonder, emerge,
Veiled in the sheen

Of her glorious sea-dripping locks,
Buoyant of limb, and as bright
As the sole star that leads out the flocks
Of the shepherdess Night!

But what avails it to sigh
For a glimpse of that day withdrawn?
Not for long in the sky
Stays the fair dawn.

Ours the nobler lot
Under the broad noon-tide,
Gazing, to falter not,
Till from the wide

Ocean of life we behold
Rising in splendor and might,
Fairer than Venus of old,
Calmer than Night,

Purer than Dawn, or the blue
Depths of ether untrod,
Nature, the only, the true
Daughter of God.





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