Love
Waiting (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Cleophantis lingers long; and the third lamp now begins to give a broken glimmer as it silently wastes away. And would that the firebrand in my heart too were quenched with the lamp, and did not burn me long in wakeful desires. Ah how often she swore by the Cytherean that she would be here at evenfall; but she recks not of either men or gods.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Waiting (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/82/.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Waiting (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/82/.
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