Love

Love Song I

by Anonymous Egyptian Poets c. 2000–1000 BC

Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller · From Archaeology and the Bible (1916)

Love

Your love has penetrated all within me
Like honey plunged into water,
Like an odor which penetrates spices,
As when one mixes juice in
Nevertheless you run to seek your sister,
Like the steed upon the battlefield,
As the warrior rolls along on the spokes of his wheels.

For heaven makes your love
Like the advance of flames in straw,
And its longing like the downward swoop of a hawk.

MLA

Anonymous Egyptian Poets. “Love Song I.” Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-egyptian/21/.

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Anonymous Egyptian Poets. “Love Song I.” Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-egyptian/21/.

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