After being revived with a kiss in the grass, one of the title characters of this work wonders if she is in "earth or heaven, or in the ocean drench'd, or in the fire.
After being revived with a kiss in the grass, one of the title characters of this work wonders if she is in "earth or heaven, or in the ocean drench'd, or in the fire." At another point, that character says "Woe, woe" more than twenty times. That character then compares her lover's "body to a swallowing grave" and is seen saluting the sun and weeping after her lover leaves her on the trail of a "bright star that shooteth from the sky." Eventually, she, "weary of the world," is led away from the scene in a chariot pulled by two silver doves, "holding their course to Paphos." Its epigraph, written in Latin asks Phoebus to lead the author to "Muses' springs." For 10 points, identify this poem about a mythological pair of lovers that is dedicated to the earl of Southampton, written by the author of The Rape of Lucrece and The Phoenix and the Turtle, William Shakespeare.
After being revived with a kiss in the grass, one of the title characters of this work wonders if she is in "earth or heaven, or in the ocean drench'd, or in the fire.
Venus and Adonis