Love
Love in Spring (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Now the white violet blooms, and blooms the moist narcissus, and bloom the mountain-wandering lilies; and now, dear to her lovers, spring flower among the flowers, Zenophile, the sweet rose of Persuasion, has burst into bloom. Meadows, why idly laugh in the brightness of your tresses? for my girl is better than garlands sweet to smell.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love in Spring (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/136/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love in Spring (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/136/.
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