Ancient Egyptian love poetry translated by John L. Foster

• ‘Send him back hard by your lady's small window’
• ‘How clever my love with a lasso’
• ‘I found my love by the secret canal’
• ‘Once more you pass her house, deep in thought’
• ‘I love you through the daytimes’
• ‘Your love, dear man, is as lovely to me’
• ‘My love is back, let me shout out the news’
• ‘When I hold my love close’
• ‘My always love, believe’
• ‘Flee him, my heart—and hurry’
• ‘I just chanced to be happening by’
• ‘Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals’
• ‘Astray or captured, all bear witness’
• ‘I'm going downstream on Kingswater Canal’
• ‘When her little sycamore, petite, begins to speak’
• ‘Lover, beloved, strongwinged love’
• ‘The wild goose bursts into flight, then settles’
• ‘What heaven it would be’
• ‘The voice of the swallow, flittering, calls to me’