Here's someone's poem, and perhaps some ideas.

Danae; A Fragment From Simonides

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/yourpage/allan.html#danae

Wrapt in thy little cloak, my child,
Thou heed'st not the waters wild,
As o'er thy long dark hair they sweep;
My love, my life! if thou couldst see
Thy hapless mother's misery,
Those slumb'ring eyes would learn to weep.
"Yet sleep, my boyI charge thee sleep,
And slumber thou, resistless deep,
And sleep ye, too, my many woes;
Oh! grant, great Jove, a mother's prayer,
My Perseus in thy mercy spare
(Rash wish!) to punish Danäe foes."

Hey thanks! But it's not quite what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for a transliteration of the Greek--i.e. I want to keep it in the ancient Greek tongue, but spell it out with the 26-letter English alphabet, so readers can hear the Greek in their heads, not necessarily the translation.

That's a bit more challenging, as every source I've seen so far prints it in the Greek alphabet, then translates the whole thing into English words. I want that middle point--keep it in Greek, but with the English alphabet giving a close approximation of the Greek words. A transliteration, not a translation.

O tekos, hoion echo ponon. Su d'aoteis, galatheno d'etori knosseis en aterpei dourati chalkeogompho tode engktilampei kuaneo dnopho tatheis...

Sorry, Dean. This is quite a bit different from the Koine Greek I'm used to, I'm having to guess at where rough breathing marks (="h") might occur (I'm used to seeing them indicated in the text), and I'm up early (5 AM local time) with insomnia.

Plus, I can't figure how to produce macrons in HTML, so I'm not indicating for you in the transliteration the distinction between omega and omicron, or between eta and epsilon.

Better wait for some honest-to-God Greek scholar out there to show up. I'm going back to bed.

On second thought, what the hell. Here's a rough transliteration, modulo the provisos above. Plus, I'll leave it to some real Greek scholar to rap my knuckles over where the upsilons should be transliterated as "u", and where they should be rendered as "y". :-)

O tekos, hoion echo ponon.
Su d'aoteis,
galatheno d'etori knosseis
en aterpei dourati chalkeogompho
tode engktilampei kuaneo dnopho tatheis.
Alman d'hyperthen tean koman
batheian pariontos kumatos ouk alegeis
oud'anemou phthonggon
prophurea keimenos en chlanidi,
prosopon kalon prophainon.
Ei de toi deinon to ge deinon en,
kai ken emon rhematon lepton hypeiches ouas.
Kelomai s'eude, brephos
eudeto de pontos,
eudeto d'ametron kakon.

Now back to bed.

On a bit more sleep and a few cups of coffee, I'd say make that "kyaneo" for "kuaneo"; "kymatos"; for "kumatos"; and "prophyrea" for "prophurea." (It's them upsilons, don't you know.)

Once again, standard disclaimer: "I'm not a Greek scholar, I only play one on TV."

Well, a certain friend of ours will be singing from memory and in a vulgar dialect, so if the pronunciation is a little off.... [shrug]

You rule, Paul! ;-)

Not to mention our friend would be somewhat inebriated at the time...

Oops, You should have said you wanted the
"romaji" but I don't think there is a word for that in greek, therefore I erred. To err is human.

Gomenasai

Happy St. Paddy's