Death & Dying
A Grave at Ostia
Translated by Rennell Rodd (1916) · From Love, Worship and Death (1916)
Ausonian earth contains me
That was a Libyan maid,
And in the sea's sand hard by Rome
My virgin form was laid.
Pompeia with a mother's care
Watched o'er my tender years,
Entombed me here among the free,
And gave me many tears.
Not as she prayed the torch was fired,
She would have burned for me;
The lamp which took the torch's place
Was thine, Persephone.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “A Grave at Ostia.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/88/.
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Thessalonica, Antipater of. “A Grave at Ostia.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/antipater-thessalonica/88/.
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