Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Let Nothing Be Between Us
Greek Anthology 5.252 (by Paulus Silentarius; tr. W.R. Paton, rev. Michael A. Tueller):
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Let us throw off this clothing, my beauty, and join naked limbs with naked limbs entwined. Let nothing be between us; even that thin tissue you wear seems like the wall of Semiramis to me. Let our breasts and our lips be linked—the rest must be veiled in silence: I hate a babbling tongue.
Ῥίψωμεν, χαρίεσσα, τὰ φάρεα, γυμνὰ δὲ γυμνοῖς
ἐμπελάσῃ γυίοις γυῖα περιπλοκάδην·
μηδὲν ἔοι τὸ μεταξύ· Σεμιράμιδος γὰρ ἐκεῖνο
τεῖχος ἐμοὶ δοκέει λεπτὸν ὕφασμα σέθεν.
στήθεα δ᾽ ἐζεύχθω τά τε χείλεα· τἄλλα δὲ σιγῇ
κρυπτέον· ἐχθαίρω τὴν ἀθυροστομίην.
