Ode VII | Arm'd with hyacinthine rod

by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE)

Translation by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

Εἰς Ἔρωτα

Language: Greek (Ελληνικά)

Ὑακινθίνῃ με ῥάβδῳ
χαλεπὸς Ἔρως ῥαπίζων
ἐκέλευε συντροχάζειν·
διὰ δ' ὀξέων μ' ἀναύρων,
ξυλόχων τε καὶ φαραγγῶν
τροχάοντα τεῖρεν ἱδρώς,
κραδίη δὲ ῥινὸς ἄχρις
ἀνέβαινε, κἂν ἀπέσβην.
ὁ δ' Ἔρως μέτωπα σείων
ἁπαλοῖς πτεροῖσιν, εἶπε·
σὺ γὰρ οὐ δύνῃ φιλῆσαι.

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by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE), "Εἰς Ἔρωτα", appears in Odes, no. 7 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885) , no title, first published 1875 ; composed by Antonio Bazzini.
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ENG English (Thomas Moore) , "Ode VII", appears in Odes of Anacreon, no. 7

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Ode VII

Language: English after the Greek (Ελληνικά)

Arm'd with hyacinthine rod,
(Arms enough for such a god,)
Cupid bade me wing my pace,
And try with him the rapid race.
O'er the wild torrent, rude and deep.
By tangled brake and pendent steep,
With weary foot I panting flew,
My brow was chill with drops of dew.
And now my soul, exhausted, dying,
To my lip was faintly flying;
And now I thought the spark had fled,
When Cupid hover'd o'er my head,
And fanning light his breezy plume,
Recall'd me from my languid gloom;
Then said, in accents half-reproving,
'Why hast thou been a foe to loving?'

Confirmed with The Odes of Anacreon. Translated by Thomas Moore, London, John Camden Hotten, 1869.

Text Authorship:

by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "Ode VII", appears in Odes of Anacreon, no. 7 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE), "Εἰς Ἔρωτα", appears in Odes, no. 7
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This text was added to the website: 2025-05-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 101