Love
Lovers' Lips (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Love
Kissing Agathon, I had my soul upon my lips; for it rose, poor wretch, as though to cross over.
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Plato. “Lovers' Lips (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/23/.
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Plato. “Lovers' Lips (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/23/.
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