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Ancient Greek Love Poems


Meleager / The Greek Anthology V.96 

Your kiss is laced with birdlime, 
  And your eyes, Timarion, with fire. 


Look at me, and I burn, 
  Touch me and I am caught.


My image is stamped on your molten heart...
Your beauty is engraved on my soul.
                      
Paulos Silentiarius
                       The Greek Anthology   V. 274


Meleager The Greek Anthology XII, 106  
         
I know only one utterly beautiful thing,      
  My ravenous eye knows only one thing:             
   ...That is to at Mysikos.  

           
To everything else, I am blind.


I would like to be the wind,
So that as you walked along the seashore..
You could bare your breasts and let me caress you with my breath.
                   
  Unknown Greek Poet

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