For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as ...a two-edged sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've strung your breasts with a rattling rope of pearls,... tied a jangling belt around those deadly hips and clinking jewelled anklets on both your feet. So, stupid, if you run off to your lover like this, banging all these drums, then why do you shudder with all this fear and look up, down; in every direction?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the evening my wife insisted to read this journal, and, finding in it such explicit instances of licentiousness, she was much a...ffected and told me that she had come to a resolution never again to consider herself my wife; though for the sake of her children and mine, as a friend, she would preserve appearances. When I saw her in great uneasiness, and dreaded somewhat--though not with much apprehension--her resolution, I was awaked from my dream of licentiousness, and saw my bad conduct in a shocking light.... She comforted me with hopes of my amendment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love... But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,... Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have suffered much, we have worked much, we have made much effort to redeem, in the eyes of God, what was unconventional in our... happiness by what was holy in our love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »