English poem
Poem 208 (Venus but a lady sweet…)
by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
Venus but a lady sweet, Cupid playing at her feet, "Nay!" I cried, "the poet's wrong, Gods are weak, but man is strong!"
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