{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos02.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos02.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\n| \u03a9 \u03b8\u03b5\u03cc\u03af, \u03c0\u03af\u03c2 \u1f06\u03c1\u03b1 \u039a\u03cd\u03c0\u03c1\u03b9\u03c2, \u1f22 \u03c4\u03af\u03c2 \u1f31\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03b4\u03b5 \u03be\u03bd\u03c5\u03ae\u03c8\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf. \u2014 Sophocles. | \nHither now, O Muses, leaving the golden\n House of God unseen in the azure spaces,\n Come and breathe on bosom and brow and kindle\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Song like the sunglow;\nCome and lift my shaken soul to the sacred\n Shadow cast by Helicon's rustling forests;\n Sweep on wings of flame from the middle ether,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Seize and uplift me;\nThrill my heart that throbs with unwonted fervor,\n Chasten mouth and throat with immortal kisses,\n Till I yield on maddening heights the very\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Breath of my body.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: The Muses","type":"page"}