Love
Lover's Fright (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
She is carried off! What savage could do so cruel a deed? Who so high as to raise battle against very Love? Light torches, quick! and yet--a footfall; Heliodora's; go back into my breast, O my heart.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Lover's Fright (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/135/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Lover's Fright (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/135/.
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