Time & Brevity
The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus
From Poems on Several Occasions
Time & BrevityLove
VENUS, take my votive glass ;
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.
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Codex Note
A four-line epigram in which a woman who is no longer beautiful offers her mirror to Venus. It is a version of a Greek epigram attributed to Plato.
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MLA
Prior, Matthew. “The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/14/.
Chicago
Prior, Matthew. “The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/14/.
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