Echoes from the Greek Anthology + 

With two bright eyes, my star, my love, + 

Thou lookest on the stars above: + 

Ah, would that I the heaven might be + 

With a million eyes to look on thee. + 

A little while the rose, + 

And after that the thorn; + 

An hour of dewy morn, + 

And then the glamour goes. + 

Ah, love in beauty born, + 

A little while the rose! + 

O morning star, farewell! + 

My love I now must leave; + 

The hours of day I slowly tell, + 

And turn to her with the twilight bell⁠— + 

O welcome, star of eve! + 

Sweet in summer, cups of snow, + 

Cooling thirsty lips aglow; + 

Sweet to sailors winter-bound, + 

Spring arrives with garlands crowned; + 

Sweeter yet the hour that covers + 

With one cloak a pair of lovers, + 

Living lost in golden weather, + 

While they talk of love together. + 

Although you eat me to the root, + 

I yet shall bear enough of fruit + 

For wine to sprinkle your dim eyes, + 

When you are made a sacrifice. + 

Seven pupils, in the class + 

Of Professor Callias, + 

Listen silent while he drawls⁠— + 

Three are benches, four are walls. + 