αφροδιτη

aphrodite, sweet glowing goldenrich aphrodite, measured and wise and powerful and passionate

homeric hymn to aphrodite; translated by percy shelley


Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,

Who wakens with her smile the lulled delight

Of sweet desire, taming the eternal kings

Of Heaven, and men, and all the living things

That fleet along the air, or whom the sea,

Or earth, with her maternal ministry,

Nourish innumerable, thy delight

All seek... O crowned Aphrodite!

Three spirits canst thou not deceive or quell:—

Minerva, child of Jove, who loves too well

Fierce war and mingling combat, and the fame

Of glorious deeds, to heed thy gentle flame.

Diana... golden-shafted queen,

Is tamed not by thy smiles; the shadows green

Of the wild woods, the bow, the...

And piercing cries amid the swift pursuit

Of beasts among waste mountains,—such delight

Is hers, and men who know and do the right.

Nor Saturn’s first-born daughter, Vesta chaste,

Whom Neptune and Apollo wooed the last,

Such was the will of aegis-bearing Jove;

But sternly she refused the ills of Love,

And by her mighty Father’s head she swore

An oath not unperformed, that evermore

A virgin she would live mid deities

Divine: her father, for such gentle ties

Renounced, gave glorious gifts—thus in his hall

She sits and feeds luxuriously. O’er all

In every fane, her honours first arise

From men—the eldest of Divinities.

 

These spirits she persuades not, nor deceives,

But none beside escape, so well she weaves

Her unseen toils; nor mortal men, nor gods

Who live secure in their unseen abodes.

She won the soul of him whose fierce delight

Is thunder—first in glory and in might.

And, as she willed, his mighty mind deceiving,

With mortal limbs his deathless limbs inweaving,

Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair,

Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare.

but in return,

In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken,

That by her own enchantments overtaken,

She might, no more from human union free,

Burn for a nursling of mortality.

For once amid the assembled Deities,

The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes

 

Shot forth the light of a soft starlight smile,

And boasting said, that she, secure the while,

Could bring at Will to the assembled Gods

The mortal tenants of earth’s dark abodes,

And mortal offspring from a deathless stem

She could produce in scorn and spite of them.

Therefore he poured desire into her breast

Of young Anchises,

Feeding his herds among the mossy fountains

Of the wide Ida’s many-folded mountains,—

Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung

Like wasting fire her senses wild among.




ode to aphrodite; poem by sappho of lesbos

Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,

Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,

With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit

Lady, not longer!



Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!

Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,

Billowing in thy yoked car to Sappho

Forth from thy father's



Golden house in pity! ... I remember:

Fleet and fair thy sparrows drew thee, beating

Fast their wings above the dusky harvests,

Down the pale heavens,



Lightning anon! And thou, O blest and brightest,

Smiling with immortal eyelids, asked me:

'Maiden, what betideth thee? Or wherefore

Callest upon me?



'What is here the longing more than other,

Here in this mad heart? And who the lovely

One beloved that wouldst lure to loving?

Sappho, who wrongs thee?



'See, if now she flies, she soon must follow;

Yes, if spurning gifts, she soon must offer;

Yes, if loving not, she soon must love thee,

Howso unwilling...'



Come again to me! O now! Release me!

End the great pang! And all my heart desireth

Now of fulfillment, fulfill! O Aphrodite,

Fight by my shoulder!

on what is best; poem by sappho of lesbos

Some celebrate the beauty

of knights, or infantry,

or billowing flotillas

at battle on the sea.

Warfare has its glory,

but I place far above

these military splendors

the one thing that you love.



For proof of this contention

examine history:

we all remember Helen,

who left her family,

her child, and royal husband,

to take a stranger's hand:

her beauty had no equal,

but bowed to love's command.



As love then is the power

that none can disobey,

so too my thoughts must follow

my darling far away:

the sparkle of her laughter

would give me greater joy

than all the bronze-clad heroes

aphrodite melainis; poem by laria


The stars that stretch across Nyx’s dark skin

Flock towards you as you appear, your

Skin blindingly bright even under the

Full, warm glow of Selene’s most white world.

Beams of silver fall from your eyes and drape

Like silk scarves over your body. Even

Zeus turns his gaze from you as you dress; he

Knows to not draw your smiles in the twilight.

Dappled in moonlight, you reach towards the

Kosmos with the curiousity of

A child reaching for a dusky apple,

Or a young man plucking pomegranates.

The kosmos yield to you, most beautiful

Queen, for they follow the directions of

The Moirai, and the Fates are yours alone

To command, Aphrodite Melainis.

resonance; poème orginal



ma déesse, ma dôuce amour, je chante de ta lumière

j'ai bu ta grenadine et je suis sôul avec ton parfum

mon cœur est dans la musique de la divinité

et aphrodite, tu lis mes yeux et mon cœur

et en toi je suis complètement moi




adonis

quelque jour quand tu sucer ma bite et me permettre de utiliser ma bouche

je voudrais mastiquer sur tes bras comme une proie

mon amour, dit-moi le mot "mortel" avec du sel dans ta voix et de la sucre dans ta bouche