Death & Dying
Telluris Amor (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
O happy shepherd, would that even I had shepherded on the mountain along this white grassy hill, making the bleating folk move after the leader rams, rather than have dipped a ship's steering-rudders in the bitter brine: so I sank under the depths, and the east wind that swallowed me down cast me up again on this shore.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Telluris Amor (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/56/.
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Mytilene, Crinagoras of. “Telluris Amor (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crinagoras/56/.
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