Venus

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The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus VENUS, take my votive glass: Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Dear offspring of pleas'd VENUS, And jollie plumpe SILENUS;   Haste, haste, to decke the haire,   Of th' only sweetly faire.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

And the cause of it all, a placid, highly-polished metal robot, was seated blithely at a desk which bore the designation: VENUS.

From The Delegate from Venus by Novick, Irving

VENUS, a dream of a girl who lived long ago, posed for her statue, and had to die after everybody fell in love with her.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie

There, VENUS, rising, shrinks with sweet surprize, As her fair self reflected seems to rise!

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel