I have had not one word for her
Frankly I wish I were dead.
When I left, she wept
a great deal; she said to
me, ''This parting must be
endured, Sappho. I will go unwillingly"
I said, "Go, and be happy
but remember (you well
know) whom you leave shackled by love
"If you forget me, think
of all our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness we shared
"all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck
"myrrh poured on your head
and on the soft mats girls with
all that they most wished for beside them
"while no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring with-
out song . . . "
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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!
