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Ovid

(43 BCE - 17 CE / Rome / Italy)

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21	Pygmalion And The Statue
22	Salmacis And Hermaphroditus
23	Seeing Thou Art Fair
24	The Art of Love: Book Two
25	To His Mistress

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Disappointment

But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;
I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.
Yet holding her I was limp, and nothing happened at all:
I just lay there, a disgraceful load for her bed.
I wanted it, she did too; and yet no pleasure came
from the part of my sluggish loins that should bring joy.
The girl entwined her ivory arms around my neck
(her arms were whiter than the Sithonian snows) ,
and gave me greedy kisses, thrusting her fluttering tongue,

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