Divine Delight
(Diana Finds Endymion on Latmos)
Heedless of her path, she slowly stepped
Pensively amongst the night-dark leaves,
(Drowning in her sea-deep thoughts),
Whilst pain-tinged sighs her hurt heart heaved.
As she divinely languished,
It seemed the mournful trees had caught
The dismalness her sorrow wept
In her lovelorn anguish.
Then, like a pearl
In verdant coral wreathed
On a warm bed
In blue subtropic seas,
She saw a vision of delight
In a grove of scented peace
Pillowing his handsome head
Upon a grassy bank where bright
Fresh-perfumed flowers, underneath,
A fitting cushion spread.
Straightway all her tribulation,
Every cause of woe,
Vanished in a flood of admiration.
What potent power lay there unscreened,
Naked upon the grass!
She could not bear to pass
And leave him sleeping there for, as he dreamed,
A winsome smile enhanced
His glorious physique; a slow
Smile that entranced.
From his sunbathed slumber
She roused him with a tender kiss.
Pleasures, then, of reckless number,
(So enthralling was the shock
As her utter being thrilled
With the new grace she was filled),
Vanquished her despair.
He nothing did to block
Her amorous intents,
But joined her in the raptured bliss
That made divinest sense.
