Time & Brevity
The Rose of Youth
Translated by Rennell Rodd (1916) · From Love, Worship and Death (1916)
Time & Brevity
Girl with the roses and the grace
Of all the roses in your face,
Are you, or are the blooms you bear,
Or haply both your market ware?
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Codex Note
Rodd's notes give no Anthology number for this epigram; it is placed here under Dionysius the Sophist at the editor's direction.
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Sophist, Dionysius the. “The Rose of Youth.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dionysius-sophistes/2/.
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Sophist, Dionysius the. “The Rose of Youth.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dionysius-sophistes/2/.
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