Aphrodite Invocation :: essays research papers

Oh Muse With visions metre hast filled my soul,With visions overpowering, for ThouHast shown me Golden Aphrodite nowThe public eye emboldens me like coalTo brighter burning fanned by Breath Divine,The cyprian enflameth me with newss,Seductive sounds, which swiftly would entwineMy soul, as lime-twigs trap unwary birds.An old-fashioned Poet* spake the truth he saidWhen Cypris cometh swift, high-spiritedJust like a Hero -- irresistibleHer onslaught, nor may anyone annulHer summons flouting Her is arrogance,A blow to respect the differenceTween Gods and Mortals nor can even TheyResist Her Power. She is held at verbalizeBy only three Athena, Bright-Eyed Maid,And Artemis, who haunts both wood and glade,And Hestia reject the Paphians Dove,For They unaccompanied deny delights of Love.The Cyprians summons is a ch on the wholeenge. BeThou brave and solvent it, for verilyA God hath willed it surely stinging grief allow be refusals price, so seek relief,Con systeming to the Paphians Will .So spake the Poet Truths he would instill.Far-shining Aphrodite, collect our prayerThou Laughter-loving Lady, Paphian,Well-girded, Golden, Sea-born, Cyprian,Companion, Tender-hearted, or howeerIt pleaseth Thee to be addressed, attend,We ask, our words of praise, and sendThy Grace, because Thou art the source of allThats charming, graceful, all that doth enthrallIn word or deed, in action, figure, aspect.For Thine is the allure that doth enlaceOur hearts as one, for as the charmed is bound,So also is the charmer quickly foundSurrendering, with intense undisguised,The compromiser gladly compromisedBut irresistible is even this,Seducer falling to subjection blissRepaid is twofold bliss, drawing tightThe bonds about them both, in shared delight.------------------------------------------------------------------------ right away I call in ancient soundsAphrodite Khrusostephane Glukumeilikh O heKalligloute Thea Pandeme Hetaira su Morpho,----------------------------------------------- -------------------------Or whatever name doth please Thee,Hear If ever Ive appeased Thee,Now attend my prayer beseeching,See my hands toward Thee reaching,Know my love is everlasting flowerLady, grant the gift Im askingAnd appear before us, whetherNow sojourning heavy in NetherRegions with the Queen of Hades,Or in Heaven with Thy Ladies,Founts of all allure, the Graces,Fair Their form and fair Their facesI request Thee, leave Thy send offGrant to us a visitationShow to us Thy face delightfulLet us worship Thee as rightful,Shapely form thats Thine adoringHear our voices now upsoaringTo the Heavens from our chorusPlease, we ask Thee, persist before usQueen of Twilight, Queen of MorningDeeds on the dot done or now aborningAre Thy favorites sugard the cleverWarrior of the bold endeavourDear to Thee the Sun thats rising,Thou reward for enterprisingSouls, Thou prize of tasks completed,Thou in rivalry entreatedTo bestow Thy grace, advising,Bold advances galvanizing such Thy gift an d such Thy favor,