My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
CATULLUSNow Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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We see not our own backs.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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