Love
Love's Prisoner (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Did I not cry aloud to thee, O soul, "Yes, by the Cyprian, thou wilt be caught, poor lover, if thou flutterest so often near the lime-twigs"? did I not cry aloud? and the snare has taken thee. Why dost thou gasp vainly in the toils? Love himself has bound thy wings and set thee on the fire, and sprinkled thee to swooning with perfumes, and given thee in thy thirst hot tears to drink.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Prisoner (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/165/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Love's Prisoner (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/165/.
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