Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPIGRAM (1), by MELEAGER



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First Line: As honey in wine / wine, honey
Last Line: As vineyards of deathless cypris.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians


As honey in wine / wine, honey
Alexis in Cleobulus
Cleobulus in Alexis
sweet-haired and lovely each
as he with whom the other
mingles . . . product
of such two entwined
potent
as vineyards of deathless Cypris.





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