Ezra Pound – Homage to Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus (II)

Ezra Pound – Homage to Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus (II)

This place is the Cyprian’s, for she has ever the fancy
To be looking out across the bright sea;
Therefore the sailors are cheered, and the waves
Keep small with reverence, beholding her image.
Anyte

Ánite (Anth. Gr. 9, 144)

Κύπριδος οὗτος ὁ χῶρος, ἐπεὶ φίλον ἔπλετο τήνᾳ
αἰὲν ἀπ᾿ ἠπείρου λαμπρὸν ὁρῆν πέλαγος,
ὄφρα φίλον ναύτῃσι τελῇ πλόον· ἀμφὶ δὲ πόντος
δειμαίνει, λιπαρὸν δερκόμενος ξόανον.