/lit/ - Literature

Ancient depiction from Pompeii of Leda and the Swan. Here's a poem by WB Yeats to along with it:

>A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
>Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
>By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
>He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

>How can those terrified vague fingers push
>The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
>And how can body, laid in that white rush,
>But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

>A shudder in the loins engenders there
>The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
>And Agamemnon dead.
>Being so caught up,
>So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
>Did she put on his knowledge with his power
>Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?