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A selection of poetry by Anacreon and others.

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...-Anacreon Odd Sandals Prayer to Dionysius Water and Wine -Anonymous Thinking Mate -Asclepiades Tryphera -Bacchylides Happiness Ode to Hekate The Test of Virtue -Hedylus Let Us Drink -Ibycus No Rest for Love -Io...

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...ennt’ To The Moon (Final Version) Song Of The Spirits Over The Water To Charlotte Von Stein ‘Du bist mein und bist so zierlich,’ Measuring Time Anacreon’s Grave Roman Elegies I Roman Elegies II (First Version) Roman Elegies III Roman Elegies V Roman Elegies VII Roman Elegies XIII Roman Elegies XVII Roman Elegies XX The Nearness of the Beloved Venetian Epigr...

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...t Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often reffered to as Anacreon Moore. [...

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... DARKNESS ..............................................................15 WHEN WE TWO PARTED ....................................17 TRANSLATION FROM ANACREON ...................18 TO CAROLINE .......................................................19 EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA ........................................20 ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ................23 AND THOU ART DEA...

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...5 WHEN WE TWO PARTED ....................................17 TRANSLATION FROM ANACREON ...................18 TO CAROLINE ................................. ...1816] 17 Prometheus and Selected Short Poems of Lord Byron Translation from Anacreon Mingle with the genial bowl The Rose, the flow’est of the Soul, ...

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...e on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, 50 -- Written After a Walk Before Supper, 51 -- Imitated fro...

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...s Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 To Disappointment . . . . ... ...itten in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 Coleridge: Poems An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon 1792 As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound, Beneath so... ...st Fluttering his wings within my breast! - 44 - An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon Coleridge: Poems To Disappointment 1792 Hence! thou fiend...

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...y judge this invention hath no barbarisme at all in it, but is altogether Anacreontike. Their language is a kinde of pleasant speech, and hath a plea... ... as this is. See but what youth, vigour and jollity it restored unto wise Anacreon. And Socrates, when hee was elder then I am, speaking of an amour...

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......................................................................... 339 ANACREON’S GRA VE. ........................................................... ...h the beauteous garland of roses,— Caressing him, so blest in his flowers, Anacreon, Storm-breathing godhead! Not in the poplar grove, Near the Sybari... ...h a draught no toil can e’er procure him!” 1781. TO THE GRASSHOPPER. AFTER ANACREON. [The strong resemblance of this fine poem to Cowley’s Ode bearing... ... budding, E’en from the side of the tomb Hope will not vanish away. 1789.* ANACREON’S GRAVE. HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laure... ... with life by all the Immortals Beauteously planted and deck’ d?—Here doth Anacreon sleep Spring and summer and autumn rejoiced the thrice-happy minst...

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...ez dreaded the Mythology. Ovid ‘s a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon’s morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a dec... ... As e’er held houri in that heathenish heaven Described by Mahomet, and Anacreon Moore, To whom the lyre and laurels have been given, With ... ...mian wine! We will not think of themes like these! It made Anacreon’s song divine: He served—but served Polycrates— ... ...st fade like that of Dian: Ray fades on ray, as years on years depart. Anacreon only had the soul to tie an Unwithering myrtle round the unb...

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...ed by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845. Among the more eminent Bluecoat boys are Joshua Barnes, editor of Anacreon and Euripides; Jeremiah Mar...

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...e the bane of colleges; for—not to hint of the immorality of Ovid, Horace, Anacreon, and the rest, and the dangerous theology of Æschylus and others—w...

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...re is not truth enough in him to make a real lie of. Call him, with Burke, Anacreon of the Guillo- tine, and a man serviceable to this Convention. The...

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...e inherited little more than the fame, and the faint echo; if Stesichorus, Anacreon, and Simonides were employed in the noble task of compiling the Il...

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...s this. Do but observe what youth, vigour, and gaiety it inspired the good Anacreon withal: and Socrates, who was then older than I, speaking of an am...

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...olycletus, or feel induced by his pleasure in their poems to wish to be an Anacreon or Philetas or Archilochus. For it does not necessarily follow, th... ...son was called Periphoretus. But Heraclides Ponticus disproves this out of Anacreon’s poems, where mention is made of this Artemon Periphoretus severa...

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...tuous pattings of the same, were not infrequent. Adrian waxed now and then Anacreontic in his compliments. Lucy would say: “That’s worse than Lord Mou... ...—a very charming little woman she makes, by the way—presentable! quite old Anacreon’s rose in milk. Well! everybody thought the System must die of it....

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...e inherited little more than the fame, and the faint echo, if Stesichorus, Anacreon, and Simonides were employed in 21 Pope the noble task of compili...

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...fore their own: [“What care I about the Pleiades or the stars of Taurus?”— Anacreon, Ode, xvii. 10.] 217 Montaigne Anaximenes writing to Pythagoras, ... ...s nothing barbarous in this invention, but, moreover, that it is perfectly Anacreontic. T o which it may be added, that their language is soft, of a p...

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...ed, was Tasso; the second in tender harmony, Ovid; and the third, entitled Anacreon, was to partake of the gayety of the dithyrambus. I tried my skill...

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...ch he sets upon this performance, because he is afraid of doing injustice to Anacreon and Sappho and other great writers, and is almost inclined to th... ...had ceased to be awakened in them by really great works, such as the odes of Anacreon or Sappho or the orations of Pericles. That the first speech was... ...learn the art of living as well as loving. Our misogamist will not appeal to Anacreon or Sappho for a con firmation of his view , but to the universa... ...and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and Sappho, Aeschylus and Sophocles; and the Platonic Socrates i... ...t this moment I do not remember from whom; perhaps from Sappho the fair , or Anacreon the wise; or, possibly , from a prose writer. Why do I say so? W...

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...of Dropidas, whose family has been commemorated in the panegyrical verses of Anacreon, So lon, and many other poets, as famous for beauty and vir tu...

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... will recline now under these is land trees, and for our minstrel call on ANACREON “Nor has he ceased his charming song, for still that lyre, T... ...h he is dead, sleeps not in Hades.” Simonides’ Epigram on Anacreon . I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containi... ...t and diffuse So many sweet ointments? Who art? What thy errand?— Anacreon sent me T o a boy, to Bathyllus, Who lately is ruler and tyr... ...e has sold me For one little song, And I’m doing this service For Anacreon. And now, as you see, I bear letters from him. And he say... ...wild thing? Now indeed I eat bread, Plucking it from the hands Of Anacreon himself; And he gives me to drink The wine which he tastes, ...

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... on the lightning’s silver wing. For being an idle boy lang syne; Who read Anacreon and drank wine, I early found Anacreon rhymes Were almost passiona...

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... were merry in our proper way— which was hysterical; and sang the songs of Anacreon—which are madness; and drank deeply —although the purple wine remi...

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... Xenophon; a great part of Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Lysias; Theocritus; Anacreon; part of the Anthology; a little of Dionysius; several books of P...

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...ll-known and celebrated authors. I had composed a good number of so-called Anacreontic poems, which, on account of the convenience of the metre, and t... ...he German Parnassus, and which abated but slowly. The lead- ing-strings of Anacreon likewise allowed innumerable medio- cre geniuses to reel about at ...

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...Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked i...

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...Neither ought you to wonder at the death of another poet, I mean old jolly Anacreon, who was choked with a grape- stone. Nor at that of Fabius the Rom...

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...re is not truth enough in him to make a real lie of. Call him, with Burke, Anacreon of the Guillotine, and a man serviceable to this Convention. The o...

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...ides, a Greek Testament, an Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a minia- ture Anacreon. There was half a Horace—the two first books of the Odes at the be...