She is generally imaged with her son Cupid, in a chariot drawn by doves, or
at other times by swans or sparrows. The surnames of the goddess are
numerous, and serve to show how well established her worship was all over
the earth. She was called Cypria, {70} because particularly worshipped in
the island of Cyprus; and received the name of Paphia, because at Paphos,
she had a temple with an altar, on which it was asserted rain never fell,
though exposed in the open air.
"O queen of love! whose smile all bright
Glads Paphos and the Cyprian isle,
Forsake those loved retreats awhile,
And to the temple bend thy flight,
Where Glycera, the young, the fair,
Invokes thy presence high,
While clouds of incense fill the air,
And waft her suppliant sigh.
"Bring in thy train the vengeful boy,
And Graces (while their robes loose flow
Gives glances of a breast of snow;)
Wantoning in their thoughtless joy.
Let Hermes grace the jocund scene,
And youth so gay and free;
For what is youth, though fair, oh! queen,
If destitute of thee?"