Love
Love in Absence (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Pour, and again say, again, again, "Heliodora"; say it and mingle the sweet name with the unmixed wine; and wreath me with that garland of yesterday drenched with ointments, for remembrance of her. Lo, the lovers' rose sheds tears to see her away, and not on my bosom.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Gadara, Meleager of. “Love in Absence (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/151/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love in Absence (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/151/.
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