THE HALCYONS, by ALCMANPoet's Biography
First Line: No more, o maiden voices, sweet as honey, soft as love is Last Line: Would I were, and knew not care, the sea-blue bird of spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
NO more, O maiden voices, sweet as honey, soft as love is, No more my limbs sustain me. -- A halcyon on the wing Flying o'er the foam-flowers, in the halcyon coveys, Would I were, and knew not care, the sea-blue bird of spring!