Elisa

________________________________________________
Title:     Elisa
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

TRANSLATED FROM CLAUDIAN

Dulce dona mihi tu mittis semper Elisa!
Et quicquid mittis Thura putare decet.

The above adapted from an Epigram of Claudian [No. lxxxii, Ad Maximum Qui mel misit], by substituting _Thura_ for _Mella_: the original Distich being in return for a present of Honey.

_Imitation_

Sweet Gift! and always doth Elisa send
Sweet Gifts and full of fragrance to her Friend
Enough for Him to know they come from HER:
Whate'er she sends is Frankincense and Myrrh.

ANOTHER ON THE SAME SUBJECT BY S. T. C. HIMSELF

Semper Elisa! mihi tu suaveolentia donas:
Nam quicquid donas, te redolere puto.

_Translation_

Whate'er thou giv'st, it still is sweet to me,
For _still_ I find it redolent of thee.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Elisa

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN