In the poem about her "and Adonis", Shakespeare wrote, "Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey"
Venus and Adonis - Keith Sagar [PAR] The history of Western civilization can be written as the story of the disastrous ..... 
Shakespeare chooses to describe Adonis' rejection of her would be absurdly 
hyperbolic were he merely ... poem Venus has been pleading and softly feminine
, but now a transformation begins.