Heaven, to gaze on thee, ever with thousands of eyes.”
To Agathon:
“Thee as I kist, behold! on my lips my own soul was trembling;
For, bold one, she had come, meaning to find her way through.”
Meleager
There are many other epigrams and songs on the same subject from the Greek writers. The following is by Meleager (a native of Gadara in Palestine) about 60 B.C., and one of the sweetest and most human of the lyric poets:—
“O mortals crossed in love! the Southwind, see!
That blows so fair for sailor folk, hath ta’en
Half of my soul, Andragathos, from me.
Thrice happy ships, thrice blesséd billowy main,