Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus, 1485
Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus, c1485. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.


A HYMN TO VENUS AND CUPID.
by Robert Herrick

SEA-BORN goddess, let me be
By thy son thus grac'd and thee ;
That whene'er I woo, I find
Virgins coy but not unkind.
Let me when I kiss a maid
Taste her lips so overlaid
With love's syrup, that I may,
In your temple when I pray,
Kiss the altar and confess
There's in love no bitterness.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 174.
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