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It was very hot. The day had gone just past its noon.
I'd stretched out on a couch to take a nap.
One of the window-shutters was open, one was closed.
The light was like you'd see deep in the woods,
or like the glow of dusk when Phoebus leaves the sky,
or when night pales, and day has not yet dawned,
- a perfect light for girls with too much modesty,
where anxious Shame can hope to hide away.
When, look! here comes Corinna in a loose ungirded gown,
her parted hair framing her gleaming throat,
like lovely Semiramis entering her boudoir,
or fabled Lais, loved by many men.
I tore her gown off - not that it mattered, being so sheer,
and yet she fought to keep that sheer gown on;
but since she fought with no great wish for victory,
she lost, betraying herself to the enemy.
And as she stood before me, her garment all thrown off,
I saw a body perfect in every inch:
What shoulders, what fine arms I looked on - and embraced!
What lovely *******, begging to be caressed!
How smooth and flat a belly under a compact waist!
And the side view - what a long and youthful thigh!
But why go into details? Each point deserved its praise.
I clasped her naked body close to mine.
You can fill in the rest. We both lay there, worn out.
May all my afternoons turn out this well.
Translated by Jon Corelis
LOVELY Semiramis
Closes her slanting eyes:
Dead is she long ago.
From her fan, sliding slow,
Parrot-bright fire's feathers,
Gilded as June weathers,
Plumes bright and shrill as grass
Twinkle down; as they pass
Through the green glooms in Hell
Fruits with a tuneful smell,
Grapes like an emerald rain,
Where the full moon has lain,
Greengages bright as grass,
Melons as cold as glass,
Piled on each gilded booth,
Feel their cheeks growing smooth.
Apes in plumed head-dresses
Whence the bright heat hisses,--
Nubian faces, sly
Pursing mouth, slanting eye,
Feel the Arabian
Winds floating from the fan.
In summer's heat and mid-time of the day
To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,
One window shut, the other open stood,
Which gave such light, as twinkles in a wood,
Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun,
Or night being past, and yet not day begun.
Such light to shamefast maidens must be shown,
Where they must sport, and seem to be unknown.
Then came Corinna in a long loose gown,
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down:
Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed
Or Layis of a thousand wooers sped.
I snatched her gown, being thin, the harm was small,
Yet strived she to be covered there withal.
And striving thus as one that would be chaste,
Betrayed herself, and yeilded at the last.
Stark naked as she stood before mine eye,
Not one wen in her body could I spy.
What arms and shoulders did I touch and see,
How apt her ******* were to be pressed by me.
How smooth a belly under her waist saw I?
How large a leg, and what a ***** thigh?
To leave the rest, all liked me passing well,
I clinged her naked body, down she fell,
Judge you the rest, being tired she bade me kiss,
Jove sent me more such afternoons as this.
Cry Sebastian Dec 2009
My Semiramis.
I used to dwell in the light realm,
I tried to leave but now not even the darkness will take me.
I live somewhere in a mist realm.

My Bathsheba,
I left glory to come find you,
but just like in the light realm,
you still insist on hiding yourself behind your icy walls.

My Delilah,
one night with you broke me forever.
Your sickness has weakened my soul.

My Jezebel,
in my dreams i always look for your passionate black eyes.
Its dumb and illogical my obsession with you,
you destroy me.

My Diana,
I remember when my life was peace and control,
but you seduced me into turmoil and war.

My death trap,
why do i want you so?
Copyright Martin Hugo 2010- From The Law of the Rat
Johnny Noiπ Feb 2019
Mercer's English word is for women's
ladies and girls and her daughters.
This is exactly the same as the original
English word. Overall, they are portrayed
as beautiful and bwnaded. As mentioned
above, more than half the Femmes
Sneakers have been re-enacted
in the Greek mythology as quoted above.
On rocky, sand, or hungry animals.

Syrians are only aquatic animals
in rivers, streams, walls, coastal
waters, bogs, and coastal tides.
The Mexican species, including
alumi from Mexico, are very black,
as they are used in handheld devices,
used for transportation of vehicles,
and when using the man's bath
in both bones. Shape of the process,
into the deep water of the muscle.
On a strong, but surely, shaped shaft,
hydrogen and heavy equipment,
and before the 19th century,                                    grass is considered to live.
It is also known as "Gorgon Syndrome"
named / and born / born / kidney / kidney
/ kidney / kidney / baby / baby / genii / arennau /
kidneys / kidneys. Features.
There are many interesting philosophers
such as Annapolis,                     which have been pulled down by a number
of carabin marinas in the past to delays.
"The cremation of a fish image"
in the east of ancient Greece,
however, is its Iraqi institutions,
whose artwork is Babylonian
in the ground, small and small plants,
and the inheritance of Dioraimus 3.
in the original narrative of 10007 BCE,
I do not like the death of the mother
of Kerala Ashley, Queen Semiramis,
Shepherd ... I do not like the death
of a murderer, and I'm quick,
then jump into the lake and take
the shape of the fish, but not with divine beauty,
and then fish fish - Symbols
such as Babylonian fish,                          Greeks
are called "A." Karnion Derketo
546 BC Philosophers Sometimes
there are people who refer to animals
that show water animals As men,
I cannot live without life. The
Eskinder Eskinder, Thessalonica,
Egyptian Mammals, and Aegean Sea
are the famous Greek myths.         The question is now in the same direction
                                            as the ship: "The puppet can read the Aesculus?"
"The Greeks live King of Alexandria"
"A true answer:"                                   Mt This answer does not satisfy itself,
it mopped the water
and tells the ship, and leaves it, more,
and it was in a hurricane,
and suddenly it was on a ship,                                                 and it came out.

In the Syrian occupation,
the Lamentations read about
the army for the army, originally
written in In Iconic Greek.

"Tradition with the family
of the Church However,   some of the people of Rome,
Semiramis homelike who established his work in Asia,
did not urge his mother, "Dadataa."
"Dixon Phoenix, a great miracle,
has a daughter more than half an hour,
and another half is her feet
and feet stretching out of the fish's tail.
The holy city, the full woman
does not eat and eat Everything
in the fish figure, the birds do not eat pigs,
the Spirits Believe in the Lord.
These processes, to our knowledge,
are carried out to Derketo
and Semiramis, because the original
shape of the fish is shaped like odor,
while the other goes back
to the golden crew of the Shemmerimium,
Jon Corelis Apr 5
It was very hot.  The day had gone just past its noon.
   I’d stretched out on a couch to take a nap.
One of the window-shutters was open, one was closed.
   The light was like you’d see deep in the woods,
or like the glow of dusk when Phoebus leaves the sky,
   or when night pales, and day has not yet dawned.
— a perfect light for girls with too much modesty,
   where anxious Shame can hope to hide away.
When, look!  here comes Corinna in a loose ungirded gown,
   her parted hair framing her gleaming throat,                
like lovely Semiramis entering her boudoir,
   or fabled Laïs, loved by many men.
I snatched her gown off — not that it mattered, being so sheer,
   and yet she fought to keep that sheer gown on;
but since she fought with no great wish for victory,
   she lost, betraying herself to the enemy.
And as she stood before me, her garment all thrown off,
   I saw a body perfect in every inch:
What shoulders, what fine arms I looked on — and embraced!
   What lovely *******, begging to be caressed!                
How smooth and flat a belly under a compact waist!
   And the side view — what a long and youthful thigh!
But why go into details?  Each point deserved its praise.
   I clasped her naked body close to mine.
You can fill in the rest.  We both lay there, worn out.
   May all my afternoons turn out this well.


— from the Latin


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