Meleager of Gadara - Poetry

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!
Summer had all but brought the fruit
To its perilous end:
And the summer sun and that boy's look
Did their work on me!

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