Love
Book V, 47
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Love
I often prayed, Thalia, to have you with me at night and satisfy my passion by fervent caresses, And, now you are close to me naked with your sweet limbs, I am all languid and drowsy. O wretched spirit, what hath befallen thee? Awake and faint not. Some day shalt thou seek in vain this supreme felicity.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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