Love
Love and Music (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Sweet is the tune, by Pan of Arcady, that thou playest on the harp, Zenophile, oversweet are the notes of the tune. Whither shall I fly from thee? on all hands the Loves encompass me, and let me not take breath for ever so little space; for either thy form shoots longing into me, or again thy music or thy graciousness, or--what shall I say? all of thee; I kindle in the fire.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love and Music (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/154/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love and Music (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/154/.
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