Read full poem →He is here, Urania's son,
Hymen come from Helicon;
God that glads the lover's heart,
Dictionary Entry
A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.
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Common Phrases
. hymenhymen imperforatehymen intacthymen o
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Poetry examples for “hymen”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But, madam, if the Fates withstand, and you
Are destined Hymen's willing victim too:
Trust not too much your now resistless charms,
Read full poem →A wandering, self-consuming fire.
But Hymen's kinder flames unite,
And burn for ever one;
Read full poem →A wife may-be, a mother she
In Hymen’s shrine recals not now,
She first in hour, ah, not profane,
Read full poem →No spark minute of Nature's keen delight.
'Tis there your Hymen waits!
There where in courts afar, all unconfused, they crowd,
Read full poem →But how your home-kept girls go off!
How Hymen hastens to unband
The waist that ne'er felt waltzer's hand!