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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HALCYONS, by ALCMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: No more, o maiden voices, sweet as honey, soft as love is
Last Line: Would I were, and knew not care, the sea-blue bird of spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
First Line: No more, o maiden voices, sweet as honey, soft as love is
Last Line: Would I were, and knew not care, the sea-blue bird of spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
NO more, O maiden voices, sweet as honey, soft as love is,
No more my limbs sustain me. -- A halcyon on the wing
Flying o'er the foam-flowers, in the halcyon coveys,
Would I were, and knew not care, the sea-blue bird of spring!
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