OK, so I need to retranslate this.
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Nothing is sweeter than Love; and every other joy
Is second to it: even the honey I spit from my mouth.
Thus Nossis says: and who didn’t love Kypris,
Doesn’t know what sort of roses her flowers are.
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Adion ouden erotos (Nothing is sweeter than love)
Posted in stuff, tagged poetry on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ode
Posted in stuff, tagged poetry on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Spacious Firmament on high,
With all the blue Ethereal Sky,
And spangled Heav’ns, a Shining Frame,
Their great Original proclaim:
Th’unwearied Sun from Day to Day,
Does his Creator’s Power display,
And publishes to every Land
The Work of an Almighty Hand.
Soon as the Evening Shades prevail,
The Moon takes up the wondrous Tale,
And nightly to the list’ning Earth
Repeats the Story of [...]
Out of the stars
Posted in stuff, weddings, tagged poetry on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out of the stars in their flight, out of the dust of eternity,
here have we come,
Stardust and sunlight,
mingling through time and through space.
Out of the stars have we come,
up from time.
Out of the stars have we come.
Time out of time before time
in the vastness of space,
earth spun to orbit the sun,
Earth with the thunder of [...]
