(Sapphic strophes)
Featly, posing courtly as Aphrodite
bright eyes, slight smile, beauteous as Mona Lisa
nay I view more loveliness
Botticelli’s ungarbed sprite, Venus
Coif, constrained coronal of lustrous color,
crowning glory fastened by flowered garland
gently intertwined with hair light and fragrant,
......
(Sapphic strophes)
Featly, posing courtly as Aphrodite
bright eyes, slight smile, beauteous as Mona Lisa
nay I view more loveliness
Botticelli’s ungarbed sprite, Venus
Coif, constrained coronal of lustrous color,
crowning glory fastened by flowered garland
gently intertwined with hair light and fragrant,
......