Poems

To Aphrodite You know the place: then Leave Crete and come to us waiting where the grove is pleasantest, by precincts sacred to you; incense smokes […]

To Evening O HESPERUS! Thou bring’st all things home; All that the garish day hath scattered wide; The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold; […]

To One who Loved not Poetry THOU liest dead, and there will be no memory left behind Of thee or thine in all the earth, for […]

Tonight I’ve watched Tonight I’ve watched the moon and then the Pleiades go down The night is now half-gone; youth goes; I am in bed alone

We know this much We know this much Death is an evil; we have the gods’ word for it; they too would die if death were […]

We put the urn aboard ship We put the urn aboard ship with this inscription: This is the dust of little Timas who unmarried was led […]

We shall enjoy it We shall enjoy it as for him who finds fault, may silliness and sorrow take him!

With his venom With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Without warning Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

Words Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal