<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391199" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homage To Sextus Propertius - III</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Midnight, and a letter comes to me from our mistress:<br>Telling me to come to Tibur:<br>At once!!<br>'Bright tips reach up from twin towers,<br>'Anienan spring water falls into flat-spread pools.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is to be done about it?<br>Shall I entrust myself to entangled shadows,<br>Where bold hands may do violence to my person?<br>Yet if I postpone my obedience<br>because of this respectable terror,<br>I shall be prey to lamentations worse than a nocturnal assailant.<br>And I shall be in the wrong,<br>it will last a twelve month,<br>For her hands have no kindness me-ward,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor is there anyone to whom lovers are not sacred at midnight<br>And in the Via Sciro.<br>If any man would be a lover<br>he may walk on the Scythian coast,<br>No barbarism would go to the extent of doing him harm,<br>The moon will carry his candle,<br>and the stars will point out the stumbles,<br>Cupid will carry lighted torches before him<br>and keep mad dogs off his ankles.<br>Thus all roads are perfectly safe<br>and at any hour;<br>Who so indecorous as to shed the pure gore of a suitor?!<br>Cypris is his cicerone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if undertakers follow my track,<br>such a death is worth dying.<br>She would bring frankincense and wreaths to my tomb,<br>She would sit like an ornament on my pyre.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">aid, let not my bones lie in a public location<br>With crowds too assiduous in their crossing of it;<br>For thus are tombs of lovers most desecrated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May a woody and sequestered place cover me with its foliage<br>Or may I inter beneath the hummock<br>of some as yet uncatalogued sand;<br>At any rate I shall not hav.e my epitaph in a high road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><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=391199" data-title="Homage To Sextus Propertius - III de Ezra Pound" data-description="Midnight, and a letter comes to me from our mistress: Telling me to come to Tibur: At once!! 'Bright tips reach up from twin towers, 'Anienan spring water falls into flat-spread pools.' What is to be done about it? Shall I entrust myself to entan..."></div> </div> </div>

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