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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho. (search)
gone; 'T is the mid-noon of-night; the hour is by, And yet I watch alone. There are some little fragments of verse addressed by Sappho to the evening star, which are supposed to have suggested the celebrated lines of Byron; she says,-- O Hesperus, thou bringest all things, Thou bringest wine, thou bringest [home] the goat, To the mother thou bringest the child. Again she says, with a touch of higher imagination,-- Hesperus, bringing home all that the light-giving morning has scatteredHesperus, bringing home all that the light-giving morning has scattered. Grammarians have quoted this line to illustrate the derivation of the word Hesperus; (espe/ra a)po\ tou e)/sw poiei=n pera=n ta\ zw\a, k. t. l. and the passage may be meant to denote, not merely the assembling of the household at night, but the more spiritual reuniting of the thoughts and dreams that draw round us with the shadows and vanish with the dawn. Achilles Tatius, in the fifth century, gave in prose the substance of one of Sappho's poems, not otherwise preserved. It may be c