Time & Brevity
The Maiden's Posy (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
I send thee, Rhodocleia, this garland, which myself have twined of fair flowers beneath my hands; here is lily and rose-chalice and moist anemone, and soft narcissus and dark-glowing violet; garlanding thyself with these, cease to be high-minded; even as the garland thou also dost flower and fall.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Rufinus. “The Maiden's Posy (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/39/.
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Rufinus. “The Maiden's Posy (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rufinus/39/.
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