Activities of Michael Burch

Passerby, Tell the Spartans we lie Lifeless at Thermopylae: Dead at their word, Obedient to their command. Have they heard? Do they understand? ...

The moon has long since set; the Pleiades are gone; now half the night is spent, yet here I lie—alone. —Sappho, fragment 52, loose translation by ...

May the gods prolong the night —yes, let it last forever! — as long as you sleep in my sight. —Sappho, fragment 130, loose translation by Michael R. ...

No droning bee, nor even the bearer of honey for me! —Sappho, fragment 113, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID

These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub shooting arrows and making people fall in love, the ancient Greek and Roman poets often portrayed Cupid/Eros as a troublemaker who was driving them mad with uncontrollable desires.
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Vain woman, foolish thing! Do you base your worth on a ring? —Sappho, fragment 36, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID

These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub shooting arrows and making people fall in love, the ancient Greek and Roman poets often portrayed Cupid/Eros as a troublemaker who was driving them mad with uncontrollable desires.
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Steady your bow, Cypris, and at your leisure select a likelier target... for I am too full of arrows to take another wound. —Archias, loose translat...

I have armed myself with wisdom against Love; he cannot defeat me in single combat. I, a mere mortal, have withstood a God! But if he enlists the ...