Paraphrases. I. Erinna by Andrew Lang. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Paraphrases. I. Erinna

Andrew Lang (1844–1912)

Antipater of Sidon


BRIEF is Erinna’s song, her lowly lay,
Yet there the Muses sing;
Therefore her memory doth not pass away,
Hid by Night’s shadowy wing!
But we,—new countless poets,—heaped and hurled	5
All in oblivion lie;
Better the swan’s chant than a windy world
Of rooks in the April sky!