Love
Rest at Noon (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Voiceful cricket, drunken with drops of dew thou playest thy rustic music that murmurs in the solitude, and perched on the leaf-edges shrillest thy lyre-tune with serrated legs and swart skin. But my dear, utter a new song for the tree-nymphs' delight, and make thy harp-notes echo to Pan's, that escaping Love I may seek out sleep at noon here lying under the shady plane.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Rest at Noon (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/159/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Rest at Noon (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/159/.
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