Living
The Vow to Cupid
Translated by John Addington Symonds (1884) · From Wine, Women, and Song (1884)
Winter, now thy spite is spent,
Frost and ice and branches bent!
Fogs and furious storms are o'er,
Sloth and torpor, sorrow frore,
Pallid wrath, lean discontent.
Comes the graceful band of May!
Cloudless shines the limpid day,
Shine by night the Pleiades;
While a grateful summer breeze
Makes the season soft and gay.
Golden Love I shine forth to view!
Souls of stubborn men subdue!
See me bend! what is thy mind?
Make the girl thou givest kind,
And a leaping ram's thy due!
O the jocund face of earth,
Breathing with young grassy birth!
Every tree with foliage clad,
Singing birds in greenwood glad,
Flowering fields for lovers' mirth!
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MLA
The Goliards (Wandering Scholars). “The Vow to Cupid.” Translated by John Addington Symonds. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goliards/9/.
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The Goliards (Wandering Scholars). “The Vow to Cupid.” Translated by John Addington Symonds. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goliards/9/.
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