An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon

For other English-language translations of this work, see Epigram 16.388 (Greek Anthology).

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An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon (1792)
by Julianus the Egyptian, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Written in 1792, first published in the collected works of 1893.

Julianus the Egyptian425277An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon1792Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As late in wreaths gay flowers I bound, Beneath some roses Love I found, And by his little frolic pinion As quick as thought I seiz'd the minion, Then in my cup the prisoner threw, And drank him in its sparkling dew: And sure I feel my angry guest Fluttering his wings within my breast!

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