Mythology & Folklore
Psyche Wafted by Zephyrus
Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 5
While Psyche wept upon the rock forsaken,
Alone, despairing, dreading, — gradually
By Zephyrus she was enwrapt and taken
Still trembling, — like the lilies planted high, —
Through all her fair white limbs. Her vesture spread,
Her very bosom eddying with surprise, —
He drew her slowly from the mountain-head,
And bore her down the valleys with wet eyes,
And laid her in the lap of a green dell
As soft with grass and flowers as any nest,
With trees beside her, and a limpid well:
Yet Love was not far off from all that Rest.
Codex Note
From Apuleius, Metamorphoses, Book IV.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Psyche Wafted by Zephyrus.” Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/browning_e/375/.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Psyche Wafted by Zephyrus.” Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/browning_e/375/.
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