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What cannot be said will be wept.
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
I know not what to do, my mind is divided
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
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.
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.
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.
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!