Callimachus English Translations II
...Callimachus English translations
For Gail White
To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch
Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelou...
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Categories:
achelous, beautiful, boy, death, flower,
Form: Free verse
Pateras Potamos
...Come to me Achelous
river without tears
Carry me distant
away from my fears
Direction is onward
Olympus bestows
Hermes in orbit
directing the flow
At home in your waters
whose currents ...
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Categories:
achelous, river,
Form: Rhyme
A Pagan Dance
...Red fire glowing
in the sweet smelling night
giving off captive senses
and dismantled memories.
Timeless pictures
flickering in front of my eyes.
Pagan pipes and cymbals
rouse my ears.
On the...
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Categories:
achelous, art, fantasy, inspirational, life,
Form: Romanticism
Endless Blue
...She wore blue
as Niobe's tears
mourning blue.
No Ethiope she-
yet for every single one that fell
to swirling Achelous
fourteen children she remembered;
drowned, one by one
in endless blue...
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Categories:
achelous, death, devotion, family, imagination,
Form: I do not know?