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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM ON LAIS' MIRROR, by PLATO Poet's Biography
First Line: Lais of the haughty smile
Last Line: And cannot what I used to be.'
Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age
First Line: Lais of the haughty smile
Last Line: And cannot what I used to be.'
Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age
Lais of the haughty smile,
The despair of Greece erewhile,
Whose doors fond gallants wont to crowd,
Hath her glass to Venus vowed:
'Since what I am I will not see,
And cannot what I used to be.'
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