| Roberto Bracco - 1907 - 156 ˹éÒ
...hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, lokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench...chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire. . . . Ah I ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know... | |
| Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 236 ˹éÒ
...apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, Jokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters 1- can quench my passion. I was a princess, and thou...my veins with fire. . . . Ah! ah! wherefore didst hou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou adst loved me. Well I know that thou wouldst have... | |
| 1907 - 570 ˹éÒ
...hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, lokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench my passion. I was i princess, and thou didst scorn me. I was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity from me. I was... | |
| Lawrence Gilman - 1908 - 232 ˹éÒ
...play : the consuming and inappeasable lust of Salome for the white body and scarlet lips of John. " Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench.... . Ah ! ah ! wherefore didst thou not look at me, Jokanaan ? . . . " from beginning to end of the play — that is its focal emotion. And Strauss has... | |
| Derrick Puffett - 1989 - 228 ˹éÒ
...nahmst mir meine Keuschheit. Ich war rein und ziichtig, und du hast Feuer in meine Adern gegossen . . . I was a princess, and thou didst scorn me. I was a...was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire ... It may be that these passages were omitted in deference to the figure of Jochanaan.8 Yet they surely... | |
| Lloyd Davis - 1993 - 272 ˹éÒ
...hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, lokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench...was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire (85) There is no appeasement for virgin knowing. Wilde's Salome loses her virginity through desire... | |
| Peter Raby - 1997 - 344 ˹éÒ
...lokanaan's severed head, 'tu m'as defloree. J'etais chaste, tu as rempli mes veines de feu' (82.) I 'I was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity...was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire' (CW 604). We may thus see embodied in the play two separate aspects of perversion, heterosexual and... | |
| Peter Raby - 1997 - 344 ˹éÒ
...lokanaan's severed head, 'tu m'as defloree. J'etais chaste, tu as rempli mes veines de feu' (82) / 'I was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity...was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire' (CW 604). We may thus see embodied in the play two separate aspects of perversion, heterosexual and... | |
| Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 484 ˹éÒ
...love thee only ... I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor fruits can appease my desire. What shall I do now, Jokanaan?.... . . Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me, Jokanaan? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know that thou wouldst have loved... | |
| Toni Bentley - 2002 - 233 ˹éÒ
...trophy, slave of her unrequited adoration, Salome delivers a magnificent ode of self-referential love: "Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench...was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire. . . . The mystery of Love is greater than the mystery of Death." In a lurid gesture of necrophilia... | |
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