Death & Dying
Cast Up by the Sea
Translated by Rennell Rodd (1916) · From Love, Worship and Death (1916)
Death & Dying
Who were you, shipwrecked sailor? The body that he found,
Cast on the beach, Leontichus laid in this burial mound;
And mindful of his own grim life he wept, for neither he
May rest in peace who like a gull goes up and down the sea.
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Callimachus. “Cast Up by the Sea.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/88/.
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Callimachus. “Cast Up by the Sea.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/88/.
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