Cynthia : or Cynthius, names of Artemis (Diana) & Apollo, derived from Cynthus, a mountain in their native Delos.
... inhabitant of a moonlit world of romance and yet—there is the unique gift, the consummate poetry—remains perfectly natural, perfectly near to us, perfectly human. Shelley's Witch of Atlas & Keats' Cynthia are certainly lovely creations, but they do not live; misty, shimmering, uncertain beings seen in some half dream when the moon is full and strange indefinable figures begin to come out from the skirts ...
... dwells no more with beauty's king. The wild weed now has wed the rose, Now ivy on the bramble grows; Too happy lover, fill the lamp of bliss! Too happy lover, drunk with Nisa's kiss! For thee pale Cynthia leaves her golden car, For thee from Tempe stoops the white and evening star. O plaintive, murmuring reed, renew thy strain; O solace anguish yet again. I thought Love soft as velvet ...
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