"Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet, / You have captivated me, let me stand trembling before you; / Bridegroom, I would be taken to the bedchamber. / Bridegroom, you have taken your pleasure of me, / Tell my mother, she will give you delicacies; / my father, he will give you gifts."
And that, roughly, are some of the words to what is thought to be the oldest love poem ever found, the words of a lover from more than 4,000 years ago.
Ancient Sumerian. Bizarre. Nice poem though, I thought! Liberated for 4,000 years ago. And from a woman to a man, too.
The tablet in fact contains a daring — and risqué — ballad in which a priestess professes her love for a king, though it is believed that the words are in fact a script for a ceremonial re-creation of a fable by the priestess and the king, Su-Sin. The priestess represents Inanna, the Goddess of Love and Fertility, and the king represents Dumuzi, the God of Shepherds, on the eve of their union. - nytimes.com
Neat! I think the sumerians sound cool.
Posted by: sok at February 15, 2006 03:59 PMI like it :)
Posted by: Rachel at February 15, 2006 07:09 PM