I never had you, nor will I ever have youI suppose
A few words, an approachas in the bar yesterday, and nothing more
It is, undeniably, a pity
But we who serve Artsometimes with intensity of mind, and of course onlyfor a short while...
He swears from time to time
Begin a better
Whenever though the night
With its own counsellings,
I should like to relate this memory…but it is so faded now… scarcely anything is left —because it lies far off, in the years of my early manhood
A skin as if made of jasmine…that night in August — was it August
— that night…I can just ba...
Looking at an opal, a half-grey opal,
I remembered two beautiful grey eyesI had seen it must have been twenty years before
Every so often he vows to start a better life
But when night comes with her own counsels,with her compromises, and with her promises;but when night comes with her own powerof the body that wants and demands, he returns,forlorn, to the same fa...
It goes on being Alexandria still
Just walk a bitalong the straight road that ends at the Hippodromeand you'll see palaces and monuments that will amaze you
Whatever war-damage it's suffered,however much smaller it's become,it's still a ...
He came to read
Two or three booksare open; historians and poets
But he only read for ten minutes,and gave them up
He is dozingon the sofa
Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown oldand they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet —that is how desires look that have passedwithout fulfillment; without one of them hav...
Amid fear and suspicions,with agitated mind and frightened eyes,we melt and plan how to actto avoid the certaindanger that so horribly threatens us
And yet we err, this was not in our paths;the messages were false(or we did not hear, or fully...
The Alexandrians were gatheredto see Cleopatra's children,
Caesarion, and his little brothers,
Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the firsttime they lead out to the Gymnasium,there to proclaim kings,in front of the grand assembly of the sol...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphias these that had been sent by the two brothers,the rival Ptolemaic kings
After they had received themhowever, the priests were uneasy about the oracle
They will needall their ex...
On an ebony bed decoratedwith coral eagles, sound asleep
Nero —- unconscious, quiet, and blissful;thriving in the vigor of flesh,and in the splendid power of youth
But in the alabaster hall that enclosesthe ancient shrine of the Aenobarb...