Archives for March 2007
March 21
21 March 2007 | | No Comments
My beloved spake, and said unto me:
Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig-tree putteth forth her green […]
March 19
19 March 2007 | | No Comments
Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
(translation)
Let us […]
March 17
17 March 2007 | | No Comments
Were I a clumsy poetI’d compare you to Helen;Ransack the mythologiesGreek, Chinese and Persian
For a goddess vehementAnd slim: one with form as fair.Yet find none. O,love, you areLithe as a Jew peddler
And full of grace. Such lightnessIs in your step, instrumentsI keep for the beholderTo prove you walk, not dance.
Merely to touch you is fireIn […]
March 12
12 March 2007 | | No Comments
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more then whole Mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought […]
March 11
11 March 2007 | | No Comments
Soul, heart, and body, we thus singly name,Are not in love divisible and distinct,But each with each inseparably link’d.One is not honour, and the other shame,But burn as closely fused as fuel, heat, and flame.
They do not love who give the body and keepThe heart ungiven; nor they who yield the soul,And guard the body. […]
March 10
10 March 2007 | | No Comments
Lay Your Sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm:
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary […]
March 9
9 March 2007 | | No Comments
Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again.For then the night will more than payThe hopeless longing of the day.
Come, as thou cam’st a thousand times,A messenger from radiant climes,And smile on thy new world, and beAs kind to others as to me.
Or, as thou never cam’st in sooth,Come […]
March 8
8 March 2007 | | No Comments
In that book which isMy memory . . .On the first pageThat is the chapter whenI first met youAppear the words . . .Here begins a new life
- Dante Alighiere, La Vita Nuova
March 7
7 March 2007 | | No Comments
I love thee, as I love the calm Of sweet, star-lighted hours!I love thee, as I love the balm Of early jes’mine flow’rs.I love thee, as I love the last Rich smile of fading day,Which lingereth, like the look we cast, On rapture pass’d away.I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing […]
March 6
6 March 2007 | | No Comments
All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and made a
few pronouncements a bit too sweeping, perhaps, and
possibly forgotten to tag the bases here or there,
And damned your extravagance, and maligned your tastes,
and libeled your relatives, and slandered a few of your
friends, O. K. ,
Nevertheless, come back.
Come home. I will agree to […]