Twilight Shag

Favourite lines (for the invoking of the toy Newton's Cradle in memory):

And in it all sensation soaked
unto the nth degree,
where rose two gloating hemispheres
at untamed liberty!  
 
Full free they were to pendulate
and dance to Newton's law,

The title was timely to behold, having just watched a video of the 1976 Starland Vocal Band song Afternoon Delight (with its promise of making "a little loving when the sun goes down")!

I am much influenced by Marlowe's translation of Ovid...

In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day
To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,
One window shut, the other open stood,
Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood,
Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun
Or night being past, and yet not day begun.
Such light to shamefaced maidens must be shown,
Where they may sport, and seem to be unknown.
Then came Corinna in a long loose gown,
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down:
Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed
Or Laïs of a thousand wooers sped.
I snatched her gown, being thin, the harm was small,
Yet strived she to be covered therewithal.
And striving thus as one that would be cast,
Betrayed herself, and yielded at the last.
Stark naked as she stood before mine eye,
Not one wen in her body could I spy.

What arms and shoulders did I touch and see,
How apt her breasts were to be pressed by me?
How smooth a belly under her waist saw I?
How large a leg, and what a lusty thigh?
To leave the rest, all liked me passing well,
I clinged her naked body, down she fell,
Judge you the rest: being tired she bad me kiss,
Jove send me more such afternoons as this.

Interesting he could write that about a female - Marlowe was gay.

Oh he just translated what Ovid wrote.