Poetry
Meleager's poetry is concerned with personal experience and emotions, frequently with love and its discontents. He typically describes himself not as an active and engaged lover, but as one struck by the beauty of a woman or boy. The following is an example:
- At 12 o'clock in the afternoon
- In the middle of the street -
- Alexis!
- In the middle of the street -
- Summer had all but brought the fruit
- To its perilous end:
- And the summer sun and that boy's look
- To its perilous end:
- Did their work on me!
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