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Translation Of The Epitaph On Virgil And Tibullus, By Domitius Marsus

George Gordon Lord Byron

He who, sublime, in epic numbers roll’d,
And he who struck the softer lyre of Love,
By Death’s unequal hand alike controul’d,
Fit comrades in Elysian regions move!
Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 | William Clowes and Sons, Ltd., 1898
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