We put the urn aboard ship
with this inscription:
This is the dust of little
Timas who unmarried was led
into Persephone's dark bedroom
And she being far from home, girls
her age took new-edged blades
to cut, in mourning for her,
these curls of their soft hair

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Sappho's Poems
RomanceI don't usually see books with sapphic poems, even if I do, they're usually not from Sappho so I decided so make this book full of Sappho's amazing poems. Hope you like it!
Sappho 20
We put the urn aboard ship
with this inscription:
This is the dust of little
Timas who unmarried was led
into Persephone's dark bedroom
And she being far from home, girls
her age took new-edged blades
to cut, in mourning for her,
these curls of their soft hair