I - STARLIGHT <br /> <br />With two bright eyes, my star, my love, <br />Thou lookest on the stars above: <br />Ah, would that I the heaven might be <br />With a million eyes to look on thee. <br /> <br />Plato. <br /> <br /> <br />II - ROSELEAF <br /> <br />A little while the rose, <br />And after that the thorn; <br />An hour of dewy morn, <br />And then the glamour goes. <br />Ah, love in beauty born, <br />A little while the rose! <br /> <br />Unknown. <br /> <br /> <br />III - PHOSPHOR -- HESPER <br /> <br />O morning star, farewell! <br />My love I now must leave; <br />The hours of day I slowly tell, <br />And turn to her with the twilight bell, -- <br />O welcome, star of eve! <br /> <br />Meleager. <br /> <br /> <br />IV - SEASONS <br /> <br />Sweet in summer, cups of snow, <br />Cooling thirsty lips aglow; <br />Sweet to sailors winter-bound, <br />Spring arrives with garlands crowned; <br />Sweeter yet the hour that covers <br />With one cloak a pair of lovers, <br />Living lost in golden weather, <br />While they talk of love together. <br /> <br />Asclepiades. <br /> <br /> <br />V - THE VINE AND THE GOAT <br /> <br />Although you eat me to the root, <br />I yet shall bear enough of fruit <br />For wine to sprinkle your dim eyes, <br />When you are made a sacrifice. <br /> <br />Euenus. <br /> <br /> <br />VI - THE PROFESSOR <br /> <br />Seven pupils, in the class <br />Of Professor Callias, <br />Listen silent while he drawls, -- <br />Three are benches, four are walls. <br /> <br />Unknown.<br /><br />Henry Van Dyke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/echoes-from-the-greek-mythology/
