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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations, Translations. (search)
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Sappho's ode to Aphrodite.
poikilo/qrona, a)qa/nata *)afrodi/ta.Sappho. Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite! Daughter of Zeus, beguiler!
I implore thee Weigh me not down with weariness and anguish, O thou most holy!
Come to me now!
if ever thou in kindness Hearkenedst my words,--and often hast thou hSappho. Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite! Daughter of Zeus, beguiler!
I implore thee Weigh me not down with weariness and anguish, O thou most holy!
Come to me now!
if ever thou in kindness Hearkenedst my words,--and often hast thou hearkened, Heeding, and coming from the mansion golden Of thy great Father, Yoking thy chariot, borne by thy most lovely Consecrated birds, with dusky-tinted pinions, Waving swift wings from utmost heights of heaven Through the mid-ether; Swiftly they vanished, leaving thee, O Goddess! Smiling, with face immortal in its beauty, As ing what I sought, thus hopeless in desiring, 'Wildered in brain, and spreading nets of passion— Alas, for whom?
and saidst thou, “Who has harmed thee? O my poor Sappho!
“Though now he flies, ere long he shall pursue thee; Fearing thy gifts, he too in turn shall bring them; Loveless to-day, to-morrow he shall woo thee, Though th<