WIST QuotationsYet loneliness shall weary thee, and still
Love torture thee with longings nought can fill.
Absence makes passion’s tide have double sway,
Possession cloys the love of every day.
[Nulla tamen lecto recipit se sola libenter:
Est quiddam, quod vos quaerere cogat Amor.
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes:
Elevat assiduos copia longa viros.]
Love torture thee with longings nought can fill.
Absence makes passion’s tide have double sway,
Possession cloys the love of every day.
[Nulla tamen lecto recipit se sola libenter:
Est quiddam, quod vos quaerere cogat Amor.
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes:
Elevat assiduos copia longa viros.]
Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, No. 33C, “To Cynthia,” ll. 41-44 [tr. Moore (1870); 3.25]
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Propertius - Elegies, Book 2, No. 33C, "To Cynthia," ll. 41-44 [tr. Moore (1870); 3.25] | WIST Quotations
Yet loneliness shall weary thee, and still Love torture thee with longings nought can fill. Absence makes passion's tide have double sway, Possession cloys the love of every day. [Nulla tamen lecto recipit se sola libenter: Est quiddam, quod vos quaerere cogat Amor. Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes: Elevat…
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