chocoLOVE poem #1
missyCola @ 6:59 pm Kategorie: Arts & PoetryYeah, you should know me…I can’t stand chocolate, especially when I told you about this chocolate that has a love poem inside….it makes me so fidgety 
On one hand I was so curious about the poem, but on the other hand I wanted to save this special chocolate bar in its very beautiful package.
Then, as if my sweetie heard my pressure to take a decision - open or not - he send me two more of these chocolove bars (but in different tastes). So I opened the one that I got for Christmas (see photo) 
The poem is printed on the inside wrapper. Here it is:
Chloe Divine
Cloe’s a Nymph in flowery groves,
A Nereid in the streams;
Saint-like she in the temple moves,
A woman in my dreams.
Love steals artillery from her eyes,
The Graces point her charms;
Orpheus is rivall’d in her voice,
And Venus in her arms.
Never so happily in one
Did heaven and earth combine:
And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone
That makes her so divine.
(Thomas D’Urfey)
For my German readers:
My first question after reading the poem was: what is “nereid” as it is written in the second line of the poem? It says in German: “die Nereide”. Ha, that doesn’t help me (I’m not that good with foreign German words, sorry). In my book for foreign words it says: “Meerjungfrau (mermaid), Tochter des Nereus (daughter of Nereus) oder (or) Vertreter der Familie der vielborstigen Würmer (exponent of the family of the bristly worms?)”. Letzteres kommt hier wohl nicht in Frage. (Last expression makes no sense here). Yeah, at least I learned a new English and a new German word today :-)…and I ate 2/3 of the Chocolove bar during writing this post…yammy!
2 comments to “chocoLOVE poem #1”
Yes, the chocolate was good! I ate the rest after I published the post, hehe. Yeah, first expression of nereid in my book was mermaid (=half fish half human); I thought the same that it fits the best. The next choco-poem will come soon…(honestly, I had three other choclate bars since the chocolove, “Dagoba-mon cheri”, the “tiger bar” with espresso beans and one from Luxembourg…oh and right now the swedish milk choclate “Marabou apricot”)…soon!
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Was the choclate good sweetheart? I hope so. I think Nereid is half fish half human?
Nathan | 22.February 2006 at 9:44 pm