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Danaë
OH Danaë O!
She whose fair form doth list in melancholic loveliness,
and whose tender lips so far from mine still rest
beyond mountains bound, or vaults of bronze,
beyond oceans, moors, and more,
but ah! dumb-struck me still,
by the light of several sundered moons,
as if from the sky great javelins fell
and pinned my wayward heart to the floor.
And what a parallel Heaven
only fine decorum knows!
in shell-beds of white rose
(oh most lofty pulse aloud, please do quiet now! )
nay! rebounds and shouts as spirits swell,
and fall the same as ever they fell -
being so true in love as a fool has ever been found.
And there I clung, bewitched,
to the starry eyed night, & swept
the heyday of my body down
electric rivers of false silver and fool's gold
and all the while O
the only name true upon my heart was Thou,
My Danaë dear in sweet repose.
And so it was that I stayed
desolate to all the budding hearts in joy hence
or all the breathless memories delayed
for not a one can abide in quite the way,
the fancies of my mind's eye
- but all must fall askance, or blind,
having kissed and caressed but once, by chance,
such resplendence and beauty sublime.
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Inspired by The Danaë series of oil-on-canvas paintings by the Venetian master Titian, completed between 1553 and 1556. The works are based on the mythological princess Danaë.[/i]
Published 19th Jan 2013
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19th Jan 2013 2:40pm
Beautifully poet read and
Fond evocative release of imagery, of Zeus impregnating the seemingly impregnable in her impregnable cave.
Methinks Zeus's Golden rain was not fool's gold, well, according to Perseus anyway.
Fond evocative release of imagery, of Zeus impregnating the seemingly impregnable in her impregnable cave.
Methinks Zeus's Golden rain was not fool's gold, well, according to Perseus anyway.
19th Jan 2013 3:00pm
19th Jan 2013 3:05pm
Anonymous
19th Jan 2013 9:42pm
This one is just such an amazingly good poem!
Its like a work of art, its very much in tune with the mythical worlds that you write about.
Its like a work of art, its very much in tune with the mythical worlds that you write about.
