Love
Love and Sleep (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Thou sleepest, Zenophile, dainty girl; would that I had come to thee now, a wingless sleep, upon thine eyelids, that not even he, even he who charms the eyes of Zeus, might come nigh thee, but myself had held thee, I thee alone.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love and Sleep (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/142/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love and Sleep (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/142/.
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