Love

Love and the Stars (Mackail)

by Plato c. 428 – 348 BC

Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)

Love

On the stars thou gazest, my Star; would I were heaven, that I might look on thee with many eyes.

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Plato. “Love and the Stars (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/24/.

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