Sappho Translations VIII
...Sappho Translations VIII by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 68
translation by Michael R. Burch
That was then, this is now!
In those days my maidenhead was in full bloom,
then you …
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Categories:
procne, brother, daughter, desire, hair,
Form: Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgi...
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Categories:
procne, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Ii Procne
...I must be dreaming. Alas, through
every dream, like pain through
anesthesia, a torturous
reality shows up.
A burning taste of jealousy.
A blind deaf muteness of
lust… I think I’d better ...
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Categories:
procne, myth,
Form: Verse
I Philomela - Cm
...Blessed be the hour when angels
shake my filth off their wings.
The night was a garden of eyes*.
Luckily, days are blind.
Mute with the sinful obsession,
deaf to the call of blood,
I look for...
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Categories:
procne, myth,
Form: Verse