Cythera Cytherea : Aphrodite who landed on Cythera, an island off Peloponnesus, after her birth in the sea.
... Eryx and island Cythera, Building the fane more enduring and bright of thy golden ideal. Even if natures of men could renounce thee and God do without thee, Rose of love and sea of delight, O my child Aphrodite, Still wouldst thou live in the worship they gave thee protected from fading, Splendidly statued and shrined in men's works and men's thoughts, Cytherea." Pleased and... replied, the Father divine: "O goddess Astarte, What are these thoughts thou hast suffered to wing from thy rose-mouth immortal? Bees that sting and delight are the words from thy lips, Cytherea. Art thou not womb of the world and from thee are the thronging of creatures? And didst thou cease the worlds too would cease and the aeons be ended. Suffer my Greeks; accept who accept... Chidingly budded gainst Fate, a charm to their senses enamoured. "Well do I know thou hast given my world to Hera and Pallas. What though my temples shall stand in Paphos and island Cythera And though the Greek be a priest for my thoughts and a lyre for my singing, Beauty pursuing and light through the figures of grace and of rhythm,- Forms shall he mould for men's eyes that ...
... pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused; Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son:... Not sedulous by nature to indite Wars, hitherto the only argument Heroic deemed.... ...or to describe races and games, Page 379 ...
... how I compare myself to a star, and then the sun. Well, the Sun is a star, isn't it? and the stars are suns? What's the name of that place in the "land of Venus"—Lytheria? Cytherea, Venus is called Cytherea = the C.ytherean in Latin poetry. July 17, 1938 "... Until an omnipotence Crowned with a white Immaculate destiny." Don't white and immaculate have the same meaning... "Partial sex failure must succeed." Guru, after the "embarkment", "partial failure"! What the deuce does he mean by "partial sex failure"—beginning of the operation but no conclusion? "Embarkment for Cytherea" (land of Venus), and disembarcation in mid-sea? What a phenomenon of a fellow! July 15, 1938 [ Mother :] What about the workman who had his eye wounded? July 16, 1938 I don't ...
... Cypris: An epithet of Aphrodite, whose sanctuaries on the island of Cyprus was especially renown. Cythera: An island of the Southeast promontory of the Peloponnesus on which there was a sanctuary of Aphrodite. According to one legend, Aphrodite floated to Cythera on a seashell after her birth in the sea. Page 113 Danaans: The men of Argos (descendants of ...
... grasp, until Love pen His novel lithograph and write in you Songs bubbling with the music of a name. Oh, I am faster tangled in his eyes Than, in the net smoke-blasted Vulcan threw, Foam-bosomed Cytherea to her Mars. GUENDOLEN But will he push his fancy to your bent? ALACIEL How else? for in the coy glance of a girl A subtle sorcery lies that draws men on Page 768 As with ...
... succeed." Guru, after the "embarkment", "partial failure"! Sri Aurobindo: What the deuce does he mean by "partial sex failure"? - beginning of the operation but no conclusion? "Embarkment for Cytherea" (land of Venus), and disembarkation in mid-sea? What a phenomenon of a fellow! NB: Chand writes there is no letter from you. So, one word, Guru! Sri Aurobindo: Well, well! - That's one ...
... words from thy lips, Cytherea. Art thou not womb of the world and from thee are the thronging of creatures? And didst thou cease the worlds too would cease and the aeons be ended. Suffer my Greeks; accept who accept thee, O gold Dionaean. They in the works of their craft and their dreams shall enthrone thee for ever, Building thee temples in Paphos and Eryx and island Cythera, Building the fane... Rose of love and sea of delight, O my child Aphrodite, Still wouldst thou live in the worship they gave thee protected from fading, Splendidly statued and shrined in men's works and men's thoughts, Cytherea." Pleased and blushing with bliss of her praise and the thought of her empire Answered, as cries a harp in heaven, the gold Aphrodite: "Father, I know and I spoke but to hear from another my... and the shame of my nation; Troy yet stands confronting her skies and Helen in Troya'? Not for such foil will I go back to Ithaca or to Laertes, Rather far would I sail in my ships past southern Cythera, Turning away in silence from waters where on some headland Gazing south o'er the waves my father waits for my coming, Leaving Sicily's shores and on through the pillars of Gades. Far I would sail ...
... from an earlier passage, sent a proposal for her hand in marriage. In the Book of the Chieftains, Odysseus, in the passage beginning Rather far would I sail in my ships past southern Cythera, is made to anticipate the wanderings through which he went for twenty years after the fall of Troy before returning home to Ithaca. The passage has a very dramatic effect, as of prophecy, for ...
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