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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IDYLL 7. ALPHEUS, by MOSCHUS Poet's Biography
First Line: Alpheus, gliding by old pisa's towers
Last Line: Who taught a river how for love to dive.
Subject(s): Alpheus
First Line: Alpheus, gliding by old pisa's towers
Last Line: Who taught a river how for love to dive.
Subject(s): Alpheus
ALPHEUS, gliding by old Pisa's towers,
Deep in the sea his eager way pursues,
With sacred dust, and olive-leaves, and flowers,
With which he hastens to his Arethuse.
Smoothly he runs; the sea not feels the river
With soft unmingled stream its water rive;
Eros it was, that subtle counsel-giver,
Who taught a river how for love to dive.
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