Maid of Athens, ere'we part - Lord Byron (1810)
Channel: Isio's Town
Date: 2018-04-12

Poem by George Gordon Byron, written in 1810 and dedicated to a young girl of Athens. (english sub/cc)
The complete poem:
MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE PART.
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.

Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!
Or, since that has left my breast,
Keep it now, and take the rest!
Hear my vow before I go,
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.

By those tresses unconfined,
Wooed by each Ægean wind;
By those lids whose jetty fringe
Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge
By those wild eyes like the roe,
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.

By that lip I long to taste;
By that zone-encircled waist;
By all the token-flowers that tell
What words can never speak so well;
By love's alternate joy and woe,
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.

Maid of Athens! I am gone:
Think of me, sweet! when alone.
Though I fly to Istambol,
Athens holds my heart and soul:
Can I cease to love thee? No!
Ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ.

Athens, 1810.
[First published, Childe Harold, 1812 (4to).]
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isio's town records prod. start from Francis Gleeson's song, recording upload by @EMGColonel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp7wGqH87-U
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2018