My courtship nondescript found you! vividly
To submit this hand onto updraft innocence
Showed ocean nymphs for diligence art dolefully
Rue a short ensuing 'nstead, to you, seen fastened,
Stifled in sultry, fettered to an oyster bed,
Cold, disdaining, I, touching down with your malice
Rends me for solicitude there not I who left
Making your pain one with mine -- curbed in chalice
Welling 'gainst brief hour'd riot, shunned a home from theirs.
Total offering, rather my votive, -- Zeus' son
By earn'ng merits attained which sole conflate refers
Th' original -- where starts; allay 't's conclusion.
But let us love till old lovers tire 'f seeing us;
Life 'tween life's most opaque yet still life's before us.
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POSTROMANTICA: Ovid After-odes
PoetryFifteen verse monologues from Ovid's Metamorphoses on the subject of Romantic love. Cover art "Apollo and Daphne," by Leandro Canare Sebastian
