Sappho Poems

And their feet move
rhythmically, as tender
feet of Cretan girls
danced once around an
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Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!
Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee
Slay me not in this distress and anguish,
Lady of beauty.
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Yes, Atthis, you may be sure

Even in Sardis
Anactoria will think often of us
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It was you, Atthis, who said

"Sappho, if you will not get
up and let us look at you
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Cyprian, in my dream
the folds of a purple
kerchief shadowed
your cheeks --- the one
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It's no use
Mother dear, I
can't finish my
weaving
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I have no complaint
prosperity that
the golden Muses
gave me was no
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Dapple-throned Aphrodite,
eternal daughterf God,
snare-knitter! Don't, I beg you,

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