I say not not Helios burns so strong, <br />I say he outshines the flickering sun <br />when your laughter's radiance falls on him there, <br />trembling before you; <br /> <br />the song draws the soul from my body, it <br />shakes me with wanting and fear, because when I <br />see you I arch to the stars and dissolving I <br />fade into darkness, <br /> <br />and now, like a mawkish boy, I stammer, <br />pale flame veins my flesh and my ears ring <br />crazy in chimes and night veils my eyes, <br />failing such brightness. <br /> <br />Languor, Catullus, destroys you. Look out! <br />Languor ripens your womanish ease. <br />Languor before has ruined great kings, <br />laid waste happy cities.<br /><br />Gaius Valerius Catullus<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-lesbia-after-sappho/
