Poetry 11: Ibycus sees a beautiful boy

[wildestranger]

Here's another Greek poet, Ibycus from sixth-century Rhegium (South Italy), famous for amorous verses about boys.

Ibycus, fragment 287 PMG

Eros, melting me once more with his gaze
From under dark lids,
With all manner of charms throws me again
Into the boundless nets of the Love Goddess.
I tremble at him as he comes,
Like an old prize horse who knows the yoke
And unwilling goes into the swift chariot race
One more time.