Love
Love's Drink (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
The cup is glad for sweetness, and says that it touches the sweet-voiced mouth of love's darling, Zenophile. Happy! would that now, bringing up her lips to my lips, she would drink at one draught the very soul in me.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Drink (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/132/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Drink (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/132/.
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