Love
Love's Relapses (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Soul that weepest sore, how is Love's wound that was allayed in thee inflaming through thy heart again! nay, nay, for God's sake, nay for God's sake, O infatuate, stir not the fire that flickers low among the ashes. For soon, O oblivious of thy pains, so sure as Love catches thee in flight, again he will torture his found runaway.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Relapses (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/145/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Relapses (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/145/.
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