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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing
What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Lover Myself Running Water Women Writing
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Access Clean Love Myself Sing Writing Youth
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Escape Yourself
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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Chaste Herself Lost Maid Sex Women
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Agony Feeling Hate Love Myself
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

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