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Echoes From the Greek Mythology

 I - STARLIGHT 

With two bright eyes, my star, my love, 
Thou lookest on the stars above: 
Ah, would that I the heaven might be
With a million eyes to look on thee. 

Plato. 


II - ROSELEAF 

A little while the rose, 
And after that the thorn; 
An hour of dewy morn, 
And then the glamour goes. 
Ah, love in beauty born, 
A little while the rose! 

Unknown. 


III - PHOSPHOR -- HESPER 

O morning star, farewell! 
My love I now must leave; 
The hours of day I slowly tell, 
And turn to her with the twilight bell, --
O welcome, star of eve! 

Meleager. 


IV - SEASONS 

Sweet in summer, cups of snow, 
Cooling thirsty lips aglow; 
Sweet to sailors winter-bound, 
Spring arrives with garlands crowned; 
Sweeter yet the hour that covers
With one cloak a pair of lovers, 
Living lost in golden weather, 
While they talk of love together. 

Asclepiades. 


V - THE VINE AND THE GOAT 

Although you eat me to the root, 
I yet shall bear enough of fruit
For wine to sprinkle your dim eyes, 
When you are made a sacrifice. 

Euenus. 


VI - THE PROFESSOR 

Seven pupils, in the class 
Of Professor Callias, 
Listen silent while he drawls, --
Three are benches, four are walls.

Written by Ben Jonson |

On Sir Voluptuous Beast

XXV. ? ON SIR VOLUPTUOUS BEAST.     While BEAST instructs his fair and innocent wife,  In the past pleasures of his sensual life, Telling the motions of each petticoat,  And how his Ganymede mov'd, and how his goat, And now her hourly her own cucquean makes,  In varied shapes, which for his lust she takes : What doth he else, but say, Leave to be chaste,  Just wife, and, to change me, make woman's haste.     [AJ Notes:Ganymede, in Greek mythology, a beautiful shepherd boy         with whom Zeus fell in love.Cucquean, n. [Cuckold + queen], a woman whose          husband is unfaithful to her.]