Her sprig of myrtle clothed her beautiful rose That her han… - Archilochus of Paros

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Her sprig of myrtle clothed her beautiful rose
That her hands were happily playing with,
And her hair fell
As darkness on her back and shoulders.
Someone
Right in the middle of the myrtle.

Archilochus of Paros

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Archilochus [Ἀρχίλοχος] (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC), also rendered as Archilochos or Arkhilokhus, was a Greek lyric poet and mercenary from the island of Paros in the Archaic period.

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Native Name: Ἀρχίλοχος

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One big thing I understand:
I know how to spit back with black venom
against the man who wrongs me.

Let the stone of Tantalos
no longer overhang this island.

Like the Mykonians, Perikles,
you drink our unmixed wine
and pay for nothing.
You broke into this party, uninvited,
and act as if among old friends.
Your stomach has tricked the brains in your skull
and now you are shameless.

Her sprig of myrtle clothed her beautiful rose That her hands were happily playing with, And her hair fell As darkness on her back and shoulders. Som… - Archilochus of Paros

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