Theocritus Poems

  • 1.
    AESCHINES.
    Hail, sir Thyonichus.

    THYONICHUS.
    ...
  • 2.
    MILO. BATTUS.
    MILO.
    Well, my poor ploughman, and what ails thee now?
    Thy furrow lies not even as of yore:
    ...
  • 3.
    Art come, dear youth? two days and nights away!
    (Who burn with love, grow aged in a day.)
    As much as apples sweet the damson crude
    Excel; the blooming spring the winter rude;
    ...
  • 4.
    Methinks all nature hath no cure for Love,
    Plaster or unguent, Nicias, saving one;
    And this is light and pleasant to a man,
    Yet hard withal to compass-minstrelsy.
    ...
  • 5.
    O Queen that loves Golgi, and Idalium,
    And the steep of Eryx,
    O Aphrodite, that playes with gold,
    Lo, from the stream eternal of Acheron
    ...
  • 6.
    He whom ye gaze on was the first
    That in quaint song the deeds rehearsed
    Of him whose arm was swift to smite,
    Who dared the lion to the fight:
    ...
Total 6 Poems by Theocritus

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Some Days retired from the rest
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Some Days retired from the rest
In soft distinction lie
The Day that a Companion came
Or was obliged to die


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