Love
Love Song II
Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller · From Archaeology and the Bible (1916)
Disturbed is the condition of my pool.
The mouth of my sister is a rosebud.
Her breast is a perfume.
Her arm [is a bough?]
Which offers a delusive seat.
Her forehead is a snare of meryu-wood.
I am a wild goose, a hunted one,
My gaze is at your hair,
At a bait under the trap
That is to catch me.
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Anonymous Egyptian Poets. “Love Song II.” Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-egyptian/22/.
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Anonymous Egyptian Poets. “Love Song II.” Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-egyptian/22/.
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