Love
The Burden of Youth (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
I am not two and twenty yet, and I am weary of living; O Loves, why misuse me so? why set me on fire; for when I am gone, what will you do? Doubtless, O Loves, as before you will play with your dice, unheeding.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Samos, Asclepiades of. “The Burden of Youth (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades/42/.
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Samos, Asclepiades of. “The Burden of Youth (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades/42/.
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