[lbo-talk] She Will Put up With Your Eyes

William Quimby quimbywm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 15:03:40 PST 2016


Thanks for that!

Love the Catullus reference to the romeo keeping his teeth white by brushing them with piss!

- Bill

On 01/29/2016 3:34 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
> "She will put up with your eyes.“
>
>
> Why would women spend
> The mornings’ precious time
> On spreading wings of dusk,
> Hues of sundown over their eyes?
>
>
> From their eyebrows, lids,
> The evening never leaves
> And always lingers, dallies,
> Ready in coils on their minds.
>
>
> So thanks to care and with some art,
> Even at noon, even in the greatest rush,
> There it is—the end, the flash of love,
> The constant of that glance entwined!
>
>
> Ovid
>
>
> Fucking amazing poet. I do not regret one minute of the work I did to be able to read him in Latin.
>
> Horace and Catullus are amazing too.
>
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