Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904. | | | | I. Disappointment in Love | | Time’s Revenge | | Agathias (c. 530–582) |
| | From the Greek by Robert Bland
SHE, who but late in beauty’s flower was seen, | |
| Proud of her auburn curls and noble mien— | |
| Who froze my hopes and triumphed in my fears, | |
| Now sheds her graces in the waste of years. | |
| Changed to unlovely is that breast of snow, | 5 |
| And dimmed her eye, and wrinkled is her brow; | |
| And querulous the voice by time repressed, | |
| Whose artless music stole me from my rest. | |
| Age gives redress to love; and silvery hair | |
| And earlier wrinkles brand the haughty fair. | 10 | | | |
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