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
