swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
Similar Posts
Must I remind you, Cleis,
are unbecmoming ina poet’s household?and that they are notsuitable in ours?[Note: ‘A poet’s household’ is more litterally one ‘dedicated to the Muses.’]
Fragments 108, 110, 115, 117, 116, 111, 114, and 113 combined.
For Adonis — woe for Adonis, woe!Thus wailed Aphrodite in anguish-throe,As she strove to hold him back from death:‘Let thine heart not faint, O love! Be strong!O me, it burns me, thy failing breath!It kindles through all my being a fire!My heart is aflame with despairing desire!’She calls to her Eros of golden wing,She bids…
Of course I love you
marry a young woman!I couldn’t stand itto live with a youngman, I being older
In my eyes he matches the gods, that man who
listening from closeby to the sweetness of yourvoice as you talk, thesweetness of your laughter: yes, that–I swear it–sets the heart to shaking inside my breast, sinceonce I look at you for a moment, I can’tspeak any longer,but my tongue breaks down, and then all at once asubtle fire races inside my skin, myeyes can’t…
Sleep, darling
daughter calledCleis, who islike a goldenflowerI wouldn’ttake all Croesus’kingdom with lovethrown in, for her—Don’t ask me what to wearI have no embroideredheadband from Sardis togive you, Cleis, such asI woreand my motheralways said that in herday a purple ribbonlooped in the hair was thoughtto be high style indeedbut we were dark:a girlwhose hair is yellower…
Over the fisher Pelagon Meniscus his father set
For all men, and for ever, memorials there to beOf the luckless life of the fisher, the labourer of the sea.