Venetian Epigrams CIII
And so, far from all joys, I trifled away My days and hours in the City of Neptune. All I found I seasoned with sweet Memory, And with Hope: the world’s loveliest savours.
memory
hope
lyric poem
melancholic
Venetian Epigrams CIII - form Summary
Concise Epigrammatic Reflection
This short epigram compresses a personal impression into two couplets. The speaker recounts idle days in Venice ('City of Neptune') and frames experience through memory and hope, which he names the "world's loveliest savours." The compact form concentrates feeling and retrospection: absence of explicit narrative leaves a single mood—quiet longing and aestheticizing of past pleasures—expressed with economy and a gently elegiac tone.
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