(570 BC – 488 BC)

poet Anacreon

Poems of Anacreon

41. The Vintage 9/19/2012
42. The Women Tell Me Every Day 9/19/2012
43. They Tell How Atys, Wild With Love 9/19/2012
44. Thou, Whose Soft and Rosy Hues 9/19/2012
45. Three songs 11/27/2003
46. Upon Cupid 9/19/2012
47. Vulcan! Hear Your Glorious Task 9/19/2012
48. Wine and Song 9/19/2012
49. Wine the Healer 9/19/2012
50. Youth and Age 9/19/2012
51. Youthful Eld 9/19/2012

Beauty

Horns to bulls wise Nature lends;
Horses she with hoofs defends;
Hares with nimble feet relieves;
Dreadful teeth to lions gives;
Fishes learn through streams to slide;
Birds through yielding air to glide;
Men with courage she supplies;
But to women these denies.
What then gives she? Beauty, this

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