Cyprian in my dream

Although they areonly breath, wordswhich I commandare immortaltranslated by: Barnard

I have no complaint prosperity that the golden Muses gave me was no delusion: dead, I won't be forgotten

Of course I love you but if you love me, marry a young woman! I couldn't stand it to live with a young man, I being older

OU liest dead, and there will be no memory left behind Of thee or thine in all the earth, for never didst thou bind The roses of Pierian streams upon thy brow; thy doom Is now to flit with unknown ghosts in cold and nameless gloom. This…

It is the Muses who have caused me to be honored: they taught me their craft

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

Dapple-throned Aphrodite, eternal daughter of God, snare-knitter! Don't, I beg you, cow my heart with grief! Come, as once when you heard my far- off cry and, listening, stepped from your father's house to your gold car, to yoke…

O US! Thou bring'st all things home; All that the garish day hath scattered wide;