Jon Corelis Theocritus Wild Poems

• 1. The Battle Of The Bards
  COMETAS.
  Goats, from a shepherd who stands here, from Lacon, keep away:
  Sibyrtas owns him; and he stole my goatskin yesterday.
  
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• 2. A Statue Of Figwood
  For yon oaken avenue, swain, you must steer,
  Where a statue of figwood, you'll see, has been set:
  It has never been barked, has three legs and no ear;
  But I think there is life in the patriarch yet.
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• 3. Harvest-home
  Once on a time did Eucritus and I
  (With us Amyntas) to the riverside
  Steal from the city. For Lycopeus' sons
  Were that day busy with the harvest-home,
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• 4. Idyll Xxx
  When Cypris saw Adonis,
  In death already lying
  With all his locks dishevelled,
  And cheeks turned wan and ghastly,
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• 5. The Sorceress
  Where are the bay-leaves, Thestylis, and the charms?
  Fetch all; with fiery wool the caldron crown;
  Let glamour win me back my false lord's heart!
  Twelve days the wretch hath not come nigh to me,
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• 6. Love Stealing Honey
  Once thievish Love the honeyed hives would rob,
  When a bee stung him: soon he felt a throb
  Through all his finger-tips, and, wild with pain,
  Blew on his hands and stamped and jumped in vain.
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• 7. The Two Ladies Of Syracuse
  GORGO.
  Is dame Praxinoa in?
  
  PRAXINOA.
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• 8. The Serenade
  I pipe to Amaryllis; while my goats,
  Tityrus their guardian, browse along the fell.
  O Tityrus, as I love thee, feed my goats:
  And lead them to the spring, and, Tityrus, 'ware
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• 9. Ortho's Epitaph
  Friend, Ortho of Syracuse gives thee this charge:
  Never venture out, drunk, on a wild winter's night.
  I did so and died. My possessions were large;
  Yet the turf that I'm clad with is strange to me quite.
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