EXERCISE
by James Longenbach
Because the Greeks didn’t bother much about plagiarism
Poems by Anacreon, born in Teos around 500 B.C.,
Appear among the Anacreontea,
Imitations made by poets who loved him.
In a dream I saw Anacreon, who called to me.
As he stumbled, drunk, he lifted a crown of flowers from his head.Stephanus translated the poems
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