Edgar Lee Masters
Copyright, 1915, by Eugene Hutchinson.
Poems
(from the Greek of Myrrhine of Mitulene, and Konallis; translated by Richard Aldington)
I
Hierocleia, bring hither my silver vine-leaf-carved armlet and the mirror graven with two Maenads,
For my heart is burned to dust with longing for Konallis;
And this is the silver armlet which pressed into her side when I held her,
And before this mirror she bound up her golden-hyacinth-curled hair, sitting in the noon sunlight.