Crossword-Solution: ANTEROS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Instead of devils with horns and tails, Iamblichus evoked the genii of love, Eros and Anteros, from two adjacent fountains.

Risen ’twixt Anteros and Eros, Blood and Water, Moon and Sun, He upbears me, He _Ischyros_, I bear Him, the _Athanaton_! Where is laid the Lord arisen? In the light we walk in gloom; Though the sun has burst his prison, We know not his biding-room.

Who is She, in candid vesture, Rushing up from out the brine? Treading with resilient gesture Air, and with that Cup divine? She in us and we in her are, Beating Godward: all that pine, Lo, a wonder and a terror! The Sun hath blushed the Sea to Wine! He the Anteros and Eros, She the Bride and Spirit; for Now the days of promise near us, And the Sea shall be no more.

When he is with the lover, both cease from their pain, but when he is away then he longs as he is longed for, and has love's image, love for love (Anteros) lodging in his breast, which he calls and believes to be not love but friendship only, and his desire is as the desire of the other, but weaker; he wants to see him, touch him, kiss him, embrace him, and probably not long afterwards his desire is accomplished.

Tell me not that any goes Safe by that enchanted place; Eros dwells with Anteros In the garden of her Face, Where like friends who late were foes Meet the white and crimson Rose.