Versos English Edward Carpenter Viii

English poem

Viii

by (1844–1929)

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For with divine consent from arm to arm, From breast to brow, the lines of beauty run And shift and flow with ever-changing charm Which nothing can detain beneath the sun; And like a silver fount that seems to shun Even momentary rest, but ever flows In wasteful beauty till the day is done, Lovely in loss, since loveless in repose, So rich in love’s regret fair Aphrodite rose.