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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

The Grave of Sophocles

Simmias of Rhodes (fl. 300 B.C.)

TENDERLY, ivy, on Sophocles’ grave—right tenderly—twine

Garlanding over the mound network of delicate green.

Everywhere flourish the flower of the rose, and the clustering vine

Pour out its branches around, wet with their glistering sheen.

All for the sake of the wisdom and grace it was his to combine;

Priest of the gay and profound, sweetest of singers terrene.