Love
Dawn's Delay (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Grey dawn, why, O unloving, rollest thou now so slow round the world, since another is shrouded and warm by Demo? but when I held her delicate form to my breast, swift thou wert upon us, shedding on me a light that seemed to rejoice in my grief.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Dawn's Delay (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/140/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Dawn's Delay (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/140/.
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