Love
Book V, 250
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Sweet, my friends, is Lais’ smile, and sweet again the tears she sheds from her gently waving eyes. Yesterday, after long resting her head on my shoulder, she sighed without a cause. She wept as I kissed her, and the tears flowing as from a cool fountain fell on our united lips. When I questioned her, “Why are you crying?” She said, “I am afraid of your leaving me, for all you men are forsworn.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book V, 250.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/14/.
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