Women of the Classics

by Mary Sturgeon

And in the game white-armed Nausicaa led.

Artemis the Arrow-showerer even so

Rejoices on the mountain side to go

All down the long slope of Taÿgetus

Or Erymanthus, while before her bow

Wild boar and fleet-foot deer flee fast away,

And round her move the wild-wood nymphs at play,

Daughters of Zeus the Lord of Thunder-clouds;

And Leto joys at heart; for fair are they,

Yet fairest of them all the child she bred;