Aiga

wedding gifts

I would lead

       spangled is the earth with her crowns

Moon has set and Pleiades: middle night, the hour goes by, alone I lie.

who loves children more than Gello

O for Adonis

whiter by far than an egg

they say Leda once found a hyacinth-colored                egg hidden

that man seems to himself

she summons her son

my darling one

with what eyes?

guard her     bridegrooms        kings of cities

these things now for my companions            I shall sing beautifully

both you and my servant Eros

with anger spreading in the chest to guard against a vainly barking tongue

lady Dawn

     far more sweetsounding than a lyre golder than gold

a very long farewell to the child of Polyanaktides

full appeared the moon and when they around the altar took their places

girl sweetvoiced

mingled with all kinds of colors

and on the eyes        black sleep of night

for it is not right in a house of the Muses    that there be lament    this would not become us

when all night long        it pulls them down

wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor but a mixture of both attains the height of happiness

someone will remember us           I say           even in another time

neither for me honey nor the honey bee

do not move stones