To the Mytilenians

Name: Alkaios - To the Mytilenians
Author: Willis Barnstone

The local tyrant

rants and blusters and you are silenced

like a school of frightened neophytes

confronting the dead in holy rituals.

But I tell you, O citizens of Lesbos,

rise up and quench the smoldering logs

before their flames climb and consume you all

in total fire!

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Chicago: Willis Barnstone, "To the Mytilenians," Alkaios Original Sources, accessed September 18, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TM9TH2FZAYNEQS.

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Harvard: Barnstone, W, 'To the Mytilenians' in Alkaios. Original Sources, retrieved 18 September 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TM9TH2FZAYNEQS.