A real beauty

Who claimed Aphrodite beautiful?

 To whom was Helen the first,

 Most perfect, amongst women?

 Venus has the favour of time,

 Who's hands can make even

 The most common trinket rare.

 Snow white,  Juliet, Dido,

 From crude fiction to life go,

 Made sad flesh by men's minds.

 creatures of dreams, chimeric

 Ethereal ever vanishing forms,

 The heirs to Queen Mab's kingdom.

 Beatrice, dressed all in white,

 Stand guard over my soul tonight.