Leonidas of Alexandria

  • Home

    From the Greek by Robert Bland
    CLING to thy home! if there the meanest shed
    Yield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head,
    And some poor plot, with vegetables stored,
    Be all that Heaven allots thee for thy board,—
    Unsavory bread, and herbs that scattered...

  • On the Picture of an Infant

    From the Greek by Samuel Rogers
    Playing near a Precipice
    WHILE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels,
      And the blue vales a thousand joys recall,
    See, to the last, last verge her infant steals!
      O, fly—yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall.—
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