No Mars Is My Brighe Poem by Douglas Scotney
No Mars Is My Brighe
I vary a poem of Bartholomew Griffin's (15- ? - 1602)
Under the shade of a bay
Bart told a tale to his Bree,
(whom he would call 'my Irish Brighe') :
'Under the shade of a myrtle,
Venus did Adonis woo.
(She wooed the guy) .
She fell on him and embraced him
and told him, 'Mars did this to me too.'
'This is how Mars unlaced me, ' she said,
and showed Don what to do;
'and this is how Mars seized my lips.'
.................
A bit further on, feeling that V
was actually Mars, Donny fled from the tree.'
Having already felt, Bart thought,
'I have no need to fly:
no Mars is my Irish Brighe.'
VENUS, and young ADONIS sitting by her,
Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him;
She told the youngling how god MARS did try her,
And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.
"Even thus, " quoth she, "the wanton god embraced me! "
And then she clasped ADONIS in her arms;
"Even thus, " quoth she, "the warlike god unlaced me! "
As if the boy should use like loving charms.
But he, a wayward boy, refused the offer,
And ran away! the beauteous queen neglecting;
Showing both folly to abuse her proffer,
And all his sex of cowardice detecting.
O that I had my Mistress at that bay!
To kiss and clip me till I ran away!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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