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Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English. It is a delightful eroticopia of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient times to the late Christian era.

The epigrams--wry, wistful, lighthearted, libidinous, and sometimes bawdy--revel in the beauty and fickle affection of boys and young men and...

How to describe you save as a reliquary,

A masterwork fashioned from hope and bold-

Faced fictions containing a dubious relic? Query

The lost, loquacious seventeen-year-old,

And he will tell you again the mouldy tales he told

This too credulous solitary

Common scold, a literal truth fairy,

While his eyes beamed silver and his locks gleamed gold.

From "A Reliquary"

A Reliquary, Daryl Hine's final collection of poetry, completed just months before he died, is a portrait of the poet aging. It is elegies for lost...