Sappho Love Poetry
Sappho / fragment 16
Some say that the most beautiful thing on this dark earth is a host of horsemen,
others that it is an army of foot-soldiers,
and others that it is a fleet of ships;
But, I say it is what you love.
Sweet Apple
(B93 &B94)
I
...You’re
Just like the sweet apple reddening at the highest branch
and missed by the apple pickers -
No,
They did not miss you!
They just couldn’t reach so high.
II
And,
You’re just like the mountain Hyacinth,
trodden by the shepherds
next to the purple blossoms
-- Sappho
...SAPPHO
YOUR BODY IS ALL GRACE
YOUR EYES.....HONEY,
THE LOVE FLOWS INTO
YOUR LONGED-FOR FACE.
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Sappho (6th Century B.C.)
I live here miserable and broken with desire,
Pierced through, to the bones,
By bitterness of this god given painful love.
O friends, this passion makes my limbs limp
And tramples over me.
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