Time & Brevity
Lais
Translated by Rennell Rodd (1916) · From Love, Worship and Death (1916)
Time & Brevity
I that through the land of Hellas
Laughed in triumph and disdain,
Lais, of whose open porches
All the love-struck youth were fain,
Bring the mirror once I gazed in,
Cyprian, at thy shrine to vow,
Since I see not there what once was,
And I would not what is now.
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Plato. “Lais.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/40/.
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Plato. “Lais.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/40/.
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