Excerpt from Poems of the Intellect and the AffectionsFair Adonis is dead and the Loves are lamenting. Sleep, Cypris, no more on thy purple-strewed bed: Arise, wretch stoled in black beat thy breast unrelenting, And shriek to the worlds, Fair Adonis is dead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.