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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SINE AMORE NIL EST JUCUNDUM, by MIMNERMUS Poet's Biography First Line: O golden love, what life, what joy but thine? Last Line: And fashioned by the gods for our annoy. Alternate Author Name(s): Mimnermos | |||
O GOLDEN Love, what life, what joy but thine? Come death when thou art gone and make an end! When gifts and tokens are no longer mine, Nor the sweet intimacies of a friend. These are the flowers of youth. But painful age, The bane of beauty, following swiftly on, Wearies the heart of man with sad presage And takes away his pleasure in the sun. Hateful is he to maiden and to boy, And fashioned by the gods for our annoy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NEVER-RESTING SUN by MIMNERMUS WE ALL DO FAIL AS A LEAF by MIMNERMUS REMEMBERED WOMEN by CARL SANDBURG A GOODNIGHT by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by HERMAN MELVILLE UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES [MAY 10, 1863] by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON THE QUAKER WIDOW by BAYARD TAYLOR MOUNT PIERUS by ANTIPATER OF SIDON A LEGEND OF MINNESOTA by LILLIAN ATCHERSON |
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