English poem

IV.— VENUS VICTRIX.

by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)

Fatal in force, yet gentle in will, Defeats, from her, are tender pacts, For, like the kindly lodestone, still She's drawn herself by what she attracts.

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