Love
An Epigram out of Plato
From Poems and Translations (1689)
Love
I Lais! once a heavenly Whore!
But now those happy days are o'er!
Sweet Lais! Divine Lais! now no more.
This Looking-glass to Venus give,
My too true Representative:
Since what I am I would not see,
Since what I was I cannot be.
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Codex Note
Translated from Plato. Printed sub-heading: To Madam Amara.
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MLA
Goodall, Charles. “An Epigram out of Plato.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goodall/68/.
Chicago
Goodall, Charles. “An Epigram out of Plato.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goodall/68/.
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