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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Escape Yourself
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
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Angry Favor God Right Wild Wrong
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Fond Lover Swift Water Women Writing
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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Darkness Path Return Travel
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
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Aware Destruction Dream Habit Lost One Liner Truth Water Wine
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
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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Admire Herself Man Myself Relationship Side Time
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

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