Love
Love's Grave (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
When I am gone, Cleobulus--for what avails? cast among the fire of young loves, I lie a brand in the ashes--I pray thee make the burial-urn drunk with wine ere thou lay it under earth, and write thereon, "Love's gift to Death."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Grave (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/162/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Grave (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/162/.
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