{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob036.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob036.htm","text":"At first I did not answer, shame sat upon my cheeks and the throbbing of my heart hurt my breasts.\nThen I struggled, I said \"No! no!\". I turned my head, and the kiss did not meet my lips, nor did desire spread my close-locked knees.\nHe asked my pardon, kissed my hair, I felt his hot breath on me, and he left. . . Now I am alone.\nI see the empty place, the lonely wood, the trampled earth. And I gnaw my fists till they bleed, and I stifle my sobs in the grass.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: I. Bucolics In Pamphylia: Regrets","type":"page"}