Love
Doubtful Dawn (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
O night, O wakeful longing in me for Heliodora, and eyes that sting with tears in the creeping grey of dawn, do some remnants of affection yet remain mine, and is her memorial kiss warm upon my cold picture? has she tears for bedfellows, and does she clasp to her bosom and kiss a deluding dream of me? or has she some other new love, a new plaything? Never, O lamp, look thou on that, but be guardian of her whom I gave to thy keeping.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Doubtful Dawn (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/161/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Doubtful Dawn (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/161/.
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