Love

Love in the Storm (Mackail)

by Asclepiades of Samos fl. c. 290 BC

Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)

Love

Snow, hail, darken, blaze, thunder, shake forth all thy glooming clouds upon the earth; for if thou slay me, then will I cease, but while thou lettest me live, though thou handle me worse than this, I will revel. For the god draws me who is thy master too, at whose persuasion, Zeus, thou didst once pierce in gold to that brazen bridal-chamber.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

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Samos, Asclepiades of. “Love in the Storm (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades/39/.

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Samos, Asclepiades of. “Love in the Storm (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades/39/.

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