Juno, that on her head Love's livery carried, Scorning to wear the marks of Io's pleasure, Knew while the boy in aequinoctial tarried, His heats would rob the heaven of heavenly treasure; Beyond the tropics she the boy doth banish, Where smokes must warm before his fire do blaze, And children's thoughts not instantly grow mannish, Fear keeping lust there very long at gaze. But see how that poor goddess was deceived, For women's hearts far colder there than ice, When once the fire of lust they have received, With two extremes so multiply the vice, As neither party satisfying other, Repentance still becomes desire's mother. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GIRL'S THOUGHTS by ISAAC ROSENBERG THE SINGER OF ONE SONG by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS MENAPHON: SEPHESTIA'S [CRADLE] SONG TO HER CHILD by ROBERT GREENE DICKENS IN CAMP by FRANCIS BRET HARTE ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF CLAPHAM ACADEMY by THOMAS HOOD NEGRO by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES THE TROOP SHIP by ISAAC ROSENBERG HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |