by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | FR, LO
Always and Forever in Love I’ve been in love as long as I have known About such stuff: I’ve been in love with me. I’ve always sat on true romance’s throne Inside my heart. It’s true that I’ve been free Since teenage years to fall in love you, For instance, or with...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | BO, Ho, LO
Painless Pleasure: Two contradictory versions of the myth of Ganymede “to be very eager in the pursuit of pleasure is to go hunting for pain…. Homer…says that the greatest gods receive no advantage from their power, but are even much injured by it, if...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
The Virus: Innoculation against Sentimentality The best fact of romance is that it cures You of romance. You fall in love with man Or woman, girl or boy, and that secures Protection from this illness. That will ban It from your later years. It’s best in youth,...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | LO
Ageing Worst The things that age the fastest are love’s thrills. An adult mayfly, living only hours, Is emblematic. In love’s heat are chills Of dying. Love has only briefest powers. Its chills are fevers seeking some escape. We just don’t know that...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | LO, RO
Air Perfumed with Smouldering Frankincense Comes Ashore Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II The way that Paris floats around inside The heart and levitates around my mind, The way gold-trimmed, though black, gondolas glide So near my lungs and try...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
