Love
Epigram 30: Pour the wine, and drink it up
Translated by H. W. Tytler (1793; Bohn 1856) · From Works of Callimachus (Tytler, 1793)
Love
Pour the wine, and drink it up,
But mix no water in the cup;
The sacred cup we fill with joy
To thee, Diocles, beauteous boy :
O more than beauteous, youth divine,
Should all refuse to drink the wine,
Should all refuse thy charms to see,
Then would the boy be left with me.
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Callimachus. “Epigram 30: Pour the wine, and drink it up.” Translated by H. W. Tytler. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/124/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram 30: Pour the wine, and drink it up.” Translated by H. W. Tytler. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/124/.
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