– O Venus, O Goddess!
I long for the days of antique youth,
Of lascivious satyrs, and animal fauns,
Gods who bit, mad with love, the bark of the boughs,
And among water-lilies kissed the Nymph with fair hair!

(Arthur Rimbaud: Sun and Flesh, Full poem: https://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Sun.html)