Love
Venus armed
Love
TO practice new alarmes
In Joves great Court above,
The wanton Queen of Love
Of sleeping Mars put on the horrid Armes;
Where gazing in a Glasse
To see what thing she was,
To mock and scoffe the blew-eyed Maid did move;
Who said, sweet Queen, thus should you have been …ight
When Vulcan took you napping with your Knight.
Cite this poem
MLA
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “Venus armed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/196/.
Chicago
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “Venus armed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/196/.
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