a 1862 oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), dimensions 227 cm x 278 cm, located in Chrysler Collection, Norfolk, Virginia

At divers times, days, months, hours at a spell,

Hour into moment, moment without close,

Within my Soul, O Lady you dwell,

Home to all this incongrous repose.

For here you live, all my days, & nights,

Spared annoyance at the slightest scene:

And here I die in such riotous reveries

That my satisfaction is quite entire,

Even if I cannot restrain those Furies

Unleashed by my white-hot desire.

— Maurice Sceve/Translated by Richard Sieburth