In the canon
Fragment 31
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 600 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Greek
- Pages
- Pages 1
Watching the woman she loves laugh with a man, a poet inventories her own undoing, tongue seizing, skin on fire, ears drumming, almost dying, in lines that survive only as a fragment.
Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who sits and gazes at thee before him,
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