Love
In Horologium
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles
Fortunata nimis Machina dicit horas.
Quas MANIBUS premit illa duas insensa papillas
Cur mihi sit DIGITO tangere, amata, nefas?
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Codex Note
Written 1809. Published 1847.
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