Death & Dying
Bridegroom Death (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Not marriage but Death for bridegroom did Clearista receive when she loosed the knot of her maidenhood: for but now at even the flutes sounded at the bride's portal, and the doors of the wedding-chamber were clashed; and at morn they cried the wail, and Hymenaeus put to silence changed into a voice of lamentation; and the same pine-brands flashed their torchlight before the bride-bed, and lit the dead on her downward way.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Gadara, Meleager of. “Bridegroom Death (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/179/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Bridegroom Death (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/179/.
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