Poems by Theocritus
Beauty Fades
... The snow is white, melting at the very time when it is congealed, ...
Love Gives Value Even to Small Gifts
... All things are valued by our friends ...
Fragment from the Berenice
... For gloss and sheen, the dwellers about here ...
Dreams
... For in sleep every dog dreams of food, ...
The Sweet Murmuring of the Woods
... And sweetly, too, is thine, breathed from thy pipe ...
Fortune Changes
... To-morrow perhaps will be more favorable ...
The Psalm Of Adonis - excerpt from Idyll XV.
... Before him lie all ripe fruits that the tall trees' branches bear, ...
Epitaph of Eusthenes
... Who could tell all your thoughts by a glance at your eyes ...
Yours be yon dew-steep'd roses
... This horn'd and shaggy ram shall stain thy shrine, ...
Need alone, Diophantus, imparts
... For corroding cares take everything ...
Birds of a Feather
... Than the presence of the Muses to me ...
A Sylvan Scene
... And the pine showers its cones from on high ...
The Wolf and the Lamb
... Having seen the kid in his lair, ...
Idyll X. The Two Workmen
... MILO. Your sins have found you out--you're e'en served right: ...
Another on Eurymedon
... Above the poltroon, when he's laid in the grave, ...
