The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive: University of Virginia

The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive

Anacreontiques:
OR,
Some Copies of Verses Translated
Paraphrastically out of
Anacreon

from Miscellanies, Poems (1656; editor's copy)

V.
Age.
OFt am I by the Women told,
Poor Anacreon thou grow'st old.
Look how thy Hairs are falling all;
Poor Anacreon how they fall?
Whether I grow old or no,
By th'effects I do not know.
This I know without being told,
'Tis Time to Live if I grow Old,
'Tis time short pleasures now to take,
Of little Life the best to make,
And manage wisely the last stake.

This text normalized in the same way as Cowley's "Hymn to Light."

All the Anacreontiques: 1. Love, 2. Drinking, 3. Beauty, 4. The Duel, 5. Age, 6. The Account, 7. Gold, 8. The Epicure, 9. Another, 10. The Grasshopper, 11. The Swallow
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