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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CICADA, by MELEAGER Poet's Biography
First Line: Chirruping grasshopper, drunken with dew-drops
Last Line: Here, lying under the shade of the plane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Cicadas
First Line: Chirruping grasshopper, drunken with dew-drops
Last Line: Here, lying under the shade of the plane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Cicadas
CHIRRUPING grasshopper, drunken with dewdrops,
Lonely thou tunest a shrill meadow-lay,
Perched upon petals, with legs that are saw-like,
Swarthy one, as on a cithern to play.
Friend, sing anew for delight of the tree-nymphs,
Answer to Pan with a rivalling strain,
That I, fleeing Love, may get sleep in the noon-tide
Here, lying under the shade of the plane.
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