dianeme

Updated: May 3, 2025

In the Song of Songs the lover says of his mistress, "Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting;" in his lyric "To Dianeme," Herrick says with clear reference to the mons veneris: "Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit, Having a living fountain under it;"

Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 : Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy

I won't, do you hear? I'm yours until you don't want me anymore. Now will you be happy?" "Yes," he said. "And when we get our studio," she went on. "When we get our studio," he said, "we'll furnish it perfectly, and entertain a little after a while, maybe. You'll be my lovely Suzanne, my Flower Face, my Myrtle Blossom. Helen, Circe, Dianeme."

Theodore Dreiser - The "Genius"