{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob087.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob087.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob087.htm","text":"For whom shall I rouge my lips now? For whom shall I polish my nails? For whom perfume my hair?\nFor whom shall I rub my breasts with rouge, if they can no longer tempt her? For whom shall I flush my arms with milk, if they never again can hold her!\nHow shall I be able to sleep? How shall I get to bed? Tonight my hand, in all the bed, has not found her own warm hand.\nI dare no longer enter my home, into the room, frightfully bare. I no longer dare open the door again. I never dare open my eyes.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: II. Elegies At Mytilene: Solitude","type":"page"}