<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maid of Athens, Ere We Part</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Greek Refrain at the end of each stanza was translated by the author as "My life, I love thee."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maid of Athens, ere we part,<br>Give, oh, give back my heart!<br>Or, since that has left my breast,<br>Keep it now, and take the rest!<br>Hear my vow before I go,<br>Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By those tresses unconfined,<br>Wooed by each Aegean wind;<br>By those lids whose jetty fringe<br>Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge;<br>By those wild eyes like the roe,<br>Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By that lip I long to taste;<br>By that zone-encircled waist;<br>By all the token-flowers that tell<br>What words can never speak so well;<br>By love's alternate joy and woe,<br>Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maid of Athens! I am gone:<br>Think of me, sweet! when alone.<br>Though I fly to Istambol,<br>Athens holds my heart and soul:<br>Can I cease to love thee? No!<br>Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116807" data-title="Maid of Athens, Ere We Part de Byron" data-description="The Greek Refrain at the end of each stanza was translated by the author as "My life, I love thee."/Maid of Athens, ere we part,/Give, oh, give back my heart!/Or, since that has left my breast,/Keep it now, and take the rest!/Hear my vow before I ..."></div> </div> </div>

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