Mythology & Folklore
Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Medea of Euripides
From Works, ed. Coleridge, vol. VII (1904)
Mythology & Folklore
OH how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks,
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.
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Codex Note
June, 1810. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 227.
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