<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393573" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Lesbia (after Sappho)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I say not not Helios burns so strong, <br>I say he outshines the flickering sun<br>when your laughter's radiance falls on him there, <br>trembling before you; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the song draws the soul from my body, it<br>shakes me with wanting and fear, because when I<br>see you I arch to the stars and dissolving I<br>fade into darkness, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now, like a mawkish boy, I stammer, <br>pale flame veins my flesh and my ears ring<br>crazy in chimes and night veils my eyes, <br>failing such brightness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Languor, Catullus, destroys you. Look out! <br>Languor ripens your womanish ease.<br>Languor before has ruined great kings, <br>laid waste happy cities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gaius+Valerius+Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</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=393573" data-title="To Lesbia (after Sappho) de Gaius Valerius Catullus" data-description="I say not not Helios burns so strong, I say he outshines the flickering sun when your laughter's radiance falls on him there, trembling before you; the song draws the soul from my body, it shakes me with wanting and fear, because when I see yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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