The part assigned to Urania in Shelley's Elegy is very closely modelled upon the part assigned to Aphrodite in the Elegy of Bion upon Adonis (see the section in this volume, Bion and Moschus).

On the whole I am strongly of opinion that the Urania of Adonais is Aphrodite, and not the Muse.

In highly figurative language, this stanza pictures the passage of Urania from 'her secret paradise' to the death-chamber of Adonais in Rome, as if the spiritual essence and external form of the goddess were wounded by the uncongenial atmosphere of human malice and detraction through which she has to pass.

Wherever you went, you found Urania on the table.

and how he summoned Urania to Rome and united her in bonds of wedlock with Eleogabalus (chapters 11-12).