Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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