My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
CATULLUSWhat a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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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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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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We see not our own backs.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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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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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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