cleis - Popular Poems and stories from category

Sleep, darlingI have a smalldaughter
Cleis, who islike a goldenflower I wouldn'ttake all Croesus'kingdom with lovethrown in, for her—-Don't ask me what to wearI have no embroideredheadband from Sardis togive you,
Cleis, such asI wore and...

Must I remind you,
Cleis, that sounds of grief are unbecoming in a poet's household
and that they are not suitable in ours
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