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“A man bitten by a mad hound, they say,
sees an image of the beast in the water.
Is Eros then wild with rabies?
Did he gash me with his bitter tooth
and ravage my spirit with his heat?
For now I see your darling form mirrored
in wine cup, river whirlpool and the sea.”
―
sees an image of the beast in the water.
Is Eros then wild with rabies?
Did he gash me with his bitter tooth
and ravage my spirit with his heat?
For now I see your darling form mirrored
in wine cup, river whirlpool and the sea.”
―
“My fingers on her breasts, our mouths joined;
I graze with deep fury on her silver neck;
yet though I labor over Aphrogeneia
this virgin lets me go so far—and denies
me her bed. Her upper body she allows
to Aphrodite, but her under parts she commits
to chaste Athena. I waste away between.”
―
I graze with deep fury on her silver neck;
yet though I labor over Aphrogeneia
this virgin lets me go so far—and denies
me her bed. Her upper body she allows
to Aphrodite, but her under parts she commits
to chaste Athena. I waste away between.”
―
“Stealthily, so her nervous mother wouldn't know,
the lovely girl gave me a pair
of rosy apples. Maybe she used magic
to glaze those apples red and secretly
torch them with love: miserably, I am
entangled in flames, and in place of breasts,
good god, my hands vainly caress two apples.”
―
the lovely girl gave me a pair
of rosy apples. Maybe she used magic
to glaze those apples red and secretly
torch them with love: miserably, I am
entangled in flames, and in place of breasts,
good god, my hands vainly caress two apples.”
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