Loneliness Poem by Sappho

Loneliness

Rating: ★3.2


Set are the Pleiades; the Moon is down
And midnight dark on high.
The hours, the hours, drift by,
And here I lie,
Alone

Sappho
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 December 2023

As usual Sappho's poems are oft short versed and oft a narrative. This poem is short but loveliest in deepest melancholic appearance. TOP Marks for this amazing poem. Loneliness is a sublimest topic

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Ratnakar Mandlik 07 June 2016

Loneliness is like midnight dark on high! Great concept.

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