Love
Love's Garland (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I will twine the white violet and I will twine the delicate narcissus with myrtle buds, and I will twine laughing lilies, and I will twine the sweet crocus, and I will twine therewithal the crimson hyacinth, and I will twine lovers' roses, that on balsam-curled Heliodora's temples my garland may shed its petals over the lovelocks of her hair.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Garland (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/134/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Garland (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/134/.
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