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LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM


Poems found: 46

A WAYSIDE GRAVE

AN ONLY SON

SHEPHERD

THE LAST JOURNEY

THE SPINNING WOMAN

THE TOMB OF CRETHON

TIME

SILVER LOVE, AN ANKLET

STAFF OF SLIPPERS HANG HERE, KYPRIS

WALLET, A RAWHIDE GOATSKIN, A CANE

WALLET, THE HIDE OF A GOAT, TOUGH AND UNTANNED, A STICK.

BY THEMSELVES IN THE TWILIGHT

EILEITHYIA, BROUGHT SAFE

EVENING AND MORNING OLD PLATTHIS KEPT

FOR THAT GOATFUCKER, GOATFOOTED PAN

FOREVER BRIGANDS AND PIRATES, THE CRETANS ARE NEVER JUST.

GET OUT OF MY HUT, YOU STEALTHY VERMIN! LEONIDAS'.

GLOOMY MINISTER OF HADES WHO SAIL THIS STREAM.

GO SOFTLY PAST THE GRAVEYARD WHERE

HERE IN KLITO'S LITTLE SHACK

HIS BALL, BEAUTIFULLY LEAVED . . .

HIS POOR MOTHER GIVES MIKYTHOS'

IF THE TOMBSTONE PLACED OVER ME IS SMALL TO SEE AND CLOSE

OLD PLATTHIS OFTEN THRUST AWAY HER MORNING'S SLEEP.

PHILOKLES OFFERS HIS BOUNCING BALL TO HERMES

THERIS, THE OLD MAN WHO LIVED BY HIS FISH TRAPS

THERIS, THRICE-OLD, WHO GOT HIS LIVING FROM.

THERIS, WHOSE HANDS WERE CUNNING

THIS BEAST WHICH PREYED ON SHEEP

THUNDERING SEA, WHY IN SAVAGE STORM DID YOU PLUNGE.

TO GLUTTONY AND GUZZLING, THAT FASTIDIOUS GOURMET.

TO PALLAS, THERIS, CUNNING OF HAND, DEDICATED.

TRAVELER IN THE WILDS, DO NOT

WHOEVER THEN ARE YOU? WHOSE WRETCHED BONES ARE THESE.

ADVICE TO TRAVELERS

FABLE

LIGHTNING

ON AN OLD FISHERMAN

ON ERINNA

ON THE EMPTINESS OF THE TOMB

CRICKET'S GRAVE

FARMER'S REST

FISHERMAN'S TOMB

GOATHERD'S THANK-OFFERING

SHEPHERD'S LAST SLEEP

WAYSIDE WELL



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