View source for (Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - "Love Song for Chrysokomos (Goldenlocks)" by Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano, Late 15th Century (full-text poem)

[[File:Angelo Poliziano - Angel Appearing to Zacharias (detail).png|thumb|center|Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (1454–1494), known as Poliziano. Detail of <i>The Apparition of the Angel to Zechariah</i> (ca. 1485–1490) by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.]]


From <i>[[Homosexuality|Gay and Lesbian]] Poetry: An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo</i>, edited by James J. Wilhelm (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2013). First published in 1995 by Routledge.

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26 LOVE SONG FOR CHRYSOKOMOS (GOLDENLOCKS)<br>
Watch over me from heaven while within my arms I hold my boy,<br>
And don’t envy me, [[Zeus (mythology)|Zeus]], because I envy no other.<br>
Be contented, Zeus, be contented with your [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]], and leave to me<br>
My shiny Chrysokomos, who to me is sweeter than honey.<br>
O how happy I am—three and four times! O yes, I have kissed—<br>
Truly kissed your mouth, you delicious boy-love!<br>
O mouth, O locks, O smile, O light from your eyes!<br>
O gods, truly you are mine, you delightful boy, yes mine!<br>
I say you are truly mine, my little lover boy! How much I have anguished,<br>
How much I have suffered and undergone to receive this prize!<br>
My heart, why now are you suffering torment, as you did before? There’s no<br>
Danger now; you shouldn’t be trembling, O heart!<br>
Because the thing that once destroyed us and made us fearful—look!<br>
I now hold him vanquished between my arms.<br>
So take this, my goddess, take this dove to place on your altar,<br>
And arrange for me that this joy shall be eternal!<br>
And you, rise up! How much more gently you inspire my love<br>
As you hold my tongue intertwined in your mouth, O my boy!
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[[File:BRISEIS PAINTER -480c Man kissing a boy (Louvre G278) 2240x2180.jpg|thumb|center|An [[erastes]] kissing his [[eromenos]]. Tondo from an Attic red-figure kylix by the Briseis Painter, circa 480 BC. Paris, Musée du Louvre, G 278.]]

==See also==
*[[Adult friend (dictionary)]]
*[[Age of attraction (dictionary)]]
*[[Boylove]]
*[[Ephebophilia]]
*[[Greek love]]
*[[Loved boy (dictionary)]]
*[[Minor-attracted person (dictionary)]]
*[[Pederasty in the Renaissance]]
*[[Pedophilia]]
*[[Young friend (dictionary)]]

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