In the poem about her "and Adonis", Shakespeare wrote, "Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey"
- University of Warwick [PAR] These poems were almost certainly written in 1592 or 1593, at a time when the ... 
Marlowe and Shakespeare, decided to devote their energies to poetry for a while, 
... Apollo chases the fleeing Daphne, until eventually she feels her strength failing 
..... Much the same can be said of the conception of love in Venus and Adonis.