Love
Dawn's Haste (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Grey dawn, why, O unloving, risest thou so swift round my bed, where but now I nestled close to dear Demo? Would God thou wouldst turn thy fleet course backward and be evening, thou shedder of the sweet light that is so bitter to me. For once before, for Zeus and his Alcmena, thou wentest contrary; thou art not unlessoned in running backward.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Dawn's Haste (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/139/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Dawn's Haste (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/139/.
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