Albert Joseph Moore, Loves of the Wind and The Seasons, c. 1892 Callignotus swore to Ionis that he would never hold man or woman dearer than her.He sware : but what they say is true – that lovers’ oaths enter not the ears of the immortals.And now his flame is a man, while ofpoor Ionis there …
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752 Who knows aright to-morrow’s fortune ? When even thee, Charmis,whom we saw with our own eyes yesterday,next day we laid in the grave with tears. Than that thy father Diophon hath seen nothing more painful. Il dio domani chi mai può conoscerlo? Ieri tu pure, o Carmide, ci stavi …
Gustave Courtois, Orpheus, 1875 Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus,and it moved me to tears, and I remembered howoften we put the sun to sleepas we were talking.You, my friend from Halicarnassus, lie somewhere,long long ago gone to dust; but your nightingales are living, and Hades who snatches everything will never lay his hand upon them. …
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Between Hope and Fear, 1876 The stranger had a wound and we knew it not. How painful a sigh, marked you ? he heaved when he drank his third cup, and the roses, shedding their petals, fell from his garlands all upon the ground. He is badly burnt, by the gods, my …
Eduard Steinbruck, Cupid and Psyche, 1856 I hate the cyclic poem, nor do I take pleasure in the road which carries many to and fro. I abhor, too, the roaming lover, and I drink not from every well ; I loathe all common things. Lysanias, thou art, yea, fair, fair: but ere Echo has quite …
Callimachus (in Italian Callimaco) was a Libyan Greek poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria. He is one of the most important scholar-poets of the Hellenistic age. Callimachus is best known for his short poems and epigrams.
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