Danaë Quotes

“Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,”

“Danae in a Brazen Tower,
  Where no love was, lov’d a Showr.”

“Wikipedia: Danaë”

“For know, that vnderneath this radiant floure
Was Danaes statue in a brazen tower,”

“I think I see you when you wake,
And rub your eyes for me, and shake
My gold, in rising, from your hair,
A Danaë for a moment there.”

“Thou like a sea of milke shalt lye display’d,
Whilst I the smooth, calme Ocean, invade
With such a tempest, as when Jove of old
Fell downe on Danae in a storme of gold:”

“Ὅτε λάρνακι ἐν δαιδαλέᾳ, ...
• Simonides of Ceos, Fragment 543. Quoted by Dionysius Halicarnassensis, De compositione verborum, 26”

“Alass! alass! that loue should be a sinne!
  Euen now my blisse and sorrowe doeth beginne.
Hould wyde thy lapp, my louelie Danae,
  And entretaine the golden shoure so free,That trikling falles into thy treasurie.
  As Aprill-drops not half so pleasant be,
Nor Nilus overflowe to Ægipt plaines
As this sweet-streames that all hir ioints imbaynes.”

“Miss DANAE, when Fair and Young
(As HORACE has divinely sung)
Could not be kept from JOVE’s Embrace
By Doors of Steel, and Walls of Brass.
The Reason of the Thing is clear;
(Would JOVE the naked Truth aver:)
CUPID was with Him of the Party;
And show’d himself sincere and hearty:
For, give That Whipster but his Errand,
He takes my Lord Chief Justice’ Warrant:
Dauntless as Death away He walks;
Breaks the Doors open; snaps the Locks;
Searches the Parlour, Chamber, Study;
Nor stops, ’till He has CULPRIT’s Body.”