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Love's Mark. Love's Night Walk. The Lute. Mingle, My Boy, a Little Draught for Me. Mirth. Now the Star of Day is High. Observe When Mother Earth is Dry. The Old Lover. On a Basin Wherein Venus was Engraved.
Anacreon, Roman copy of a 5th-century- bc bust by Phidias; in the Louvre, Paris. Anacreon, or Anakreon, (born c. 582 bc, Teos, Ionia—died c. 485), Last great lyric poet of Asian Greece. Only fragments of his poetry have survived. Though he may have written serious poems, the poems quoted by later writers are chiefly in praise of love, wine ...
Anacreon and Anacreontics; To Dionysus. Anacreon 358. Anacreon 395. Anacreontic 7 (6B). To himself "The women say 'you're old, Anacreon.'" 21 (21B). Drink up! The Greek Anthology; Book X, 21. by Philodemus; A more tidy collection, Poems from the Greek Anthology. Archilochus; Archilochus 13; Archilochus 196A, the Cologne Epode; Bion
It is there that Thomas Moore, perhaps the most meticulous of the interpreters of Anacreon, did his research. European translation of the Odes began in France, and it is there that the Western tradition of Anacreontic verse was born. Though Anacreon wrote in regular Greek measures, his poems have been traditionally rendered into Western ...
14. Anacreon. As we have seen, on one hand Xenophanes and Solon, and on the other Heraclitus, invidiously opposed the ethical and metaphysical disunity of Homeric poetry to symposiastic values. Anacreon of Teos, in contrast, suggests that he is willing to incorporate Homeric poetry into his own sympotic poetry, provided that Homeric themes are ...
Anacreon, 554-469 B.C., online Poems translated into English by Thomas Moore, Dr. Johnson, Abraham Cowley, Bourne, J. H. Merivale, Fawkes, from The Poets and Poetry of the Ancients, Specimens of The Poets and Poetry of Ancient Greek and Rome by various translators, edited by William Peter, Greek and Roman poets, Classical Poetry in English by various translators, open source, online text on ...
The Anacreontic Song. " The Anacreontic Song ", also known by its incipit " To Anacreon in Heaven ", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London. Composed by John Stafford Smith, the tune was later used by several writers as a setting for their patriotic lyrics.
