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To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want.

Love shook my heart like a wind falling on oaks
on a mountain.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Come to me now and loosen me
from blunt agony. Labor
and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me
and be my ally.

I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.

When they were tired
Night rained her
thick dark sleep
upon their eyes.

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

The touched heart madly stirs,
your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles -
every gesture is a proclamation,
every sound is speech ...

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

[I was dreaming of you but]
just then
Dawn, in her golden sandals
[woke me]

The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view;
The good man will in time be gorgeous, too.

Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.

You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

...but I say whatever / one loves, is

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture
Is the summit of beatitude.

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful ...

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

for you beautiful ones my thought
is not changeable

In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly ...

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

We shall enjoy it
As for him who finds
fault, may silliness
and sorrow take him!

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

You may
blame Aphrodite
soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy

May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.

Love shook my heart
Like the wind on the mountain
rushing over the oak trees.

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go
Always remembering what we did. To me
You have meant everything, as you well know.

gathering flowers so very delicate a girl

Although only breath, words which I speak are immortal.

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. Kle

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

The dice of love are shouting and madness.

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.

]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Evening you gather back
all that dazzling dawn has put asunder:
you gather a lamb, gather a kid,
gather a child to its mother.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

neither for me honey nor the honey bee

For me, neither the honey nor the bee

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... .

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar
Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

Because I prayed
this word:
I want

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

If you are squeamish
Don't prod the
beach rubble.

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

Stand to face me beloved
And open out the grace of your eyes

The moon has set
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
I lie in bed alone.

And
Her soul! Her soul is consumed by this longing.

Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae,
And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

May you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend

You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

You came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing

I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.