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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho. (search)
chaos of short fragments, which have been assiduously collected and edited by Wolf, Blomfield, Neue, and others. Among the spirited translations by our own poet Percival, there are several of these fragments; one of which I quote for its exceeding grace, though it consists of only two lines : Sweet mother, I can weave the we love. But this last adjective, so effective to the ear, is, after all, an interpolation. It should be:-- So much I love the youth, by Aphrodite's charm. Percival also translates one striking fragment whose few short lines seem to toll like a bell, mourning the dreariness of a forgotten tryst, on which the moon and stars l. I should render it thus:-- The moon is down; And I've watched the dying Of the Pleiades; 'T is the middle night, The hour glides by, And alone I'm sighing. Percival puts it in blank verse, more smoothly:-- The moon is set; the Pleiades are gone; 'T is the mid-noon of-night; the hour is by, And yet I watch alone. There