“O boy, with virgin-glancing eye,
I call thee, but thou dost not hear;
Thou know’st not how my soul doth cry
For thee, its charioteer.”
Epigram on Lovers
Anacreon had not the passion and depth of Sappho, but there is a mark of genuine feeling in some of his poems, as in this simple little epigram:—
“On their hindquarters horses
Are branded oft with fire,
And anyone knows a Parthian
Because he wears a tiar;