<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ad Lesbiam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Equal to Jove that youth must be-<br>Greater than Jove he seems to me-<br>Who, free from Jealousy's alarms,<br>Securely views thy matchless charms;<br>That cheek, which ever dimpling glows,<br>That mouth, from whence such music flows,<br>To him, alike, are always known,<br>Reserved for him, and him alone.<br>Ah! Lesbia! though 'tis death to me,<br>I cannot choose but look on thee;<br>But, at the sight, my senses fly,<br>I needs must gaze, but, gazing, die;<br>Whilst trembling with a thousand fears,<br>Parch'd to the throat my tongue adheres,<br>My pulse beats quick, my breath heaves short,<br>My limbs deny their slight support,<br>Cold dews my pallid face o'erspread,<br>With deadly languor droops my head,<br>My ears with tingling echoes ring,<br>And life itself is on the wing;<br>My eyes refuse the cheering light,<br>Their orbs are veil'd in starless night:<br>Such pangs my nature sinks beneath,<br>And feels a temporary death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Catullus">Catullus</a>, translated by Byron<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116719" data-title="Ad Lesbiam de Catullus" data-description="Equal to Jove that youth must be-/Greater than Jove he seems to me-/Who, free from Jealousy's alarms,/Securely views thy matchless charms;/That cheek, which ever dimpling glows,/That mouth, from whence such music flows,/To him, alike, are always k..."></div> </div> </div>

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