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Poetry

Sweeney

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5. Undiluted hot desire? Oh come to me cause I'm on fire!

Reply to Petrushka (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 22, 2014, 12:22 AM

Dec 2014

I like this translation much better.

I could write this poem. I knew this Goddess in the form of a girl. Several in fact. I hate to brag, and being a slave is no prize the brag on. I wonder how she'd like me now, and what fine sport she'd make of this old fool.

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I have been looking for this for ages [View all] intaglio Feb 2013 OP

I believe that Love influences everything. In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #1

Another, more telling translation ---> Petrushka Feb 2013 #2

Undiluted hot desire? Oh come to me cause I'm on fire! Sweeney Dec 2014 #5

Do you get the birds of omen part? Sweeney Dec 2014 #6

Wow theexwife Jul 2014 #3

I understand their philosophers once believed that love was the force behind all creation. Sweeney Dec 2014 #4