Arthur Lemon, The wooing of Daphnis, 1881 I scarce believe my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endure Vicissitude, and season, as the grass; Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring make’ it more. But if medicine, love, which cures …
Elisabetta Sirani, Love and Psyche, c.1650 Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak’d’st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these …
Come sia, allora debbo dirti? Giunse una luce a due punte, come lingue di fiamma oscurata, a guizzare in me. E così mi sembra di averti, sempre la stessa, con me in un unico mondo. Nel vibrar d’un fiore, in un verme cieco che striscia ancora, in un topo che si ferma in ascolto, tremano …
Maximilian Lenz, A world, 1899 Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears,hither I come to seek the spring,and at mine eyes, and at mine ears,receive such balms as else cure every thing. But O ! self-traitor, I do bringthe spider Love, which transubstantiates all,and can convert manna to gall;and that this place may thoroughly be thoughttrue paradise, …
Bartholomaeus Spranger, Vulcan and Maia, c.1590 I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den? ’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but …
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, The Spirit of the Morning, c.1880 Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot,Teach me to hear mermaids singing,Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What windServes to advance an honest mind.If thou be’st born to strange sights, …
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