Love

Time's Revenge (Mackail)

by Callimachus c. 310 – c. 240 BC

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

Love

So mayest thou slumber, Conopion, as thou makest me sleep here in the chill doorway; so mayest thou slumber, most cruel, as thou lullest thy lover asleep; but not even in a dream hast thou known compassion. The neighbours pity me, but thou not even in a dream; but the silver hair will remind thee of all this by and by.

This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.

MLA

Callimachus. “Time's Revenge (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/71/.

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Callimachus. “Time's Revenge (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/71/.

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