VENUS

Related Subjects: Gods and Goddesses, Love, Mythology

1. Wot's the good o' callin' a young 'ooman a Wenus or a angel, Sammy?—DICKENS, Pickwick Papers
   

2. Venus, thy eternal sway
   All the race of men obey.—EURIPIDES, Iphigenia at Aulis
   

3. Thou, O Venus, art sole mistress of the nature of things, and without thee nothing rises up into the divine realms of life, nothing grows to be lovely or glad.—LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura
   

4. Lo, she was thus when her clear limbs enticed
   All lips that now grow sad with kissing Christ.—SWINBURNE, Laus Veneris