Status Updates From Venus and Adonis

“That thine may live when thou thyself art dead;
And so in spite of death thou dost survive,
In that thy likeness still is left alive.”

Venus is relentless, I’m almost sure I’ll give this 5 stars.

““Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?
Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left?
Then woo thyself, be of thyself rejected;
Steal thine own freedom, and complain on theft.
Narcissus so himself himself forsook
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.”

🔥🔥🔥

“Look in mine eyeballs; there thy beauty lies.
Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes?”

“Never did passenger in summer’s heat
More thirst for drink than she for this good turn.”

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“Her song was tedious and outwore the night,
For lovers’ hours are long, though seeming short.
If pleased themselves, others, they think, delight
In such-like circumstance, with such-like sport.
Their copious stories, oftentimes begun,
End without audience, and are never done.”

Oh the beauty of words!

“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love that inward beauty an invisible; or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: though neither eyes nor ears to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee.”