Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE, by IBYCUS


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First Line: Lo, love again with glancing eyes
Last Line: Unwillingly to the course.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibykos
Subject(s): Love


LO, love again with glancing eyes
That melt from under lids of jet
Drives me with manifold sorceries
Into the Cyprian's boundless net.
Ah, how I tremble when he comes on,
Like an old champion chariot-horse,
Who drags the light car, when youth is gone,
Unwillingly to the course.





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