Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,But, sprung at once to beauty’s perfect round,Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,—A life-complete in death-complete to die.
john b. tabbDown, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love’s name, Or Beauty’s, presto! up you raise Your angry head and stand at gaze?
robert gravesAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
Matthew Arnold