Social Commentaries
Flower O' the Rose (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Social Commentaries
You with the roses, you are fair as a rose; but what sell you? yourself, or your roses, or both together?
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MLA
Sophist, Dionysius the. “Flower O' the Rose (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dionysius-sophistes/1/.
Chicago
Sophist, Dionysius the. “Flower O' the Rose (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dionysius-sophistes/1/.
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