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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