Love
Love's Masterdom (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Terrible is Love, terrible; and what avails it if again I say and again, with many a moan, Terrible is Love? for surely the boy laughs at this, and is pleased with manifold reproaches; and if I say bitter things, they are meat and drink to him. And I wonder how thou, O Cyprian, who didst arise through the green waves, out of water hast borne a fire.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Masterdom (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/163/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Masterdom (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/163/.
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