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Catullus · 1
Canon spine row 19. Catullus — poems. Era: 1st C BCE. Lang: Latin.
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Desire tears the self apart: Catullus maps love's torment where tenderness, betrayal, and erotic obsession cannot be separated.
desire
a sudden flame blazed hotly within her, in all her marrow abiding — O thou cruel of heart, thou madding worker of anguish, Boy immortal
POEMS-RC-031many a shameful time I heard her stealthy profession — asks some questioner here: what? a door, yet privy to lewdness?
POEMS-RC-041grief
Yet not this thy promise of old — all now melted in air, with a light wind emptily fleeting. Let not a woman trust a lover's desperate oath
POEMS-RC-032Nowhere flight, no glimmer of hope; all mournfully silent, loneliness all, all points me to death, death only remaining
POEMS-RC-033intimacy
a furtive gift, sent, some love-apple, a-wooing, leaps from breast of a coy maiden — she in tell-tale cheeks glows a disorderly shame
POEMS-RC-038yours, in a loyal bed which seek love's privilege, only — may concord tarry for ever with ye at home, may love with ye for ever abide
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