Poems

One of Their Gods When one of them passed through the market place of Seleucia, toward the hour that night falls as a tall and perfectly […]

Picture of a 23-year-old Youth Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amature He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now he studies it in […]

Pictured My work, I’m very careful about it, and I love it. But today I’m discouraged by how slowly it’s going. The day has affected my […]

Poseidonians The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners. The only thing surviving from their ancestors […]

Priest at the Serapeum My dear old father, who always loved me the same; my dear old father I lament who died the day before yesterday, […]

Remember, Body… Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds on which you lay, but also those desires which for you […]

Return Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me — when the memory of the body awakens, and an old desire runs again […]

Sensual Pleasures My life’s joy and incense: recollection of those hours when I found and captured pleasure as I wanted it. My life’s joy and incense: […]

Since Nine O’Clock Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly since nine o’clock when I lit the lamp and sat down here. I’ve been sitting […]

So Much I Gazed So much I gazed on beauty, that my vision is replete with it. Contours of the body. Red lips. Voluptuous limbs. Hair […]