Poems by Callimachus

Had never vessel cross'd the main,
Our present grief had been in vain;
But we for Sopolis mus...

By mighty Pan and Bacchus' greater name,
Beneath these embers lurks a spreading flame.
Embrace...

This morning we beheld with streaming eyes
The flames from Melanippus' body rise;
At eve, fai...

Not on the land could Lycus die,
Nor in his native Naxos lie,
But on the main by tempest tost...

I hear, O friend, the fatal news
Of Heraclitus death.
A sudden tear my cheek bedews,
And si...

The Samian virgins us'd often to play
With Crethis the witty, the pleasant and gay,
But now, ...

Fond Callignotus sigh'd and swore,
'Tis Violante I adore,
The brightest beauty on the plain, ...

Whoe'er shall to this tomb draw nigh,
Behold, in death, a priestess lie;
I sacred Ceres fir...