{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos04.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos04.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nIf Panormus, Cyprus or Paphos hold thee,\n Either home of Gods or the island temple,\n Hark again and come at my invocation,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Goddess benefic;\nCome thou, foam-born Kypris, and pour in dainty\n Cups of amber gold thy delicate nectar,\n Subtly mixed with fire that will swiftly kindle\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Love in our bosoms;\nThus the bowl ambrosial was stirred in Paphos\n For the feast, and taking the burnished ladle,\n Hermes poured the wine for the Gods who lifted\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Reverent beakers;\nHigh they held their goblets and made libation,\n Spilling wine as pledge to the Fates and Hades,\n Quaffing deep and binding their hearts to Eros,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lauding thy servant.\nSo to me and my Lesbians round me gathered,\n Each made mine, an amphor of love long tasted,\n Bid us drink, who sigh for thy thrill ecstatic,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Passion's full goblet;\nGrant me this, O Kypris, and on thy altar\n Dawn will see a goat of the breed of Naxos,\n Snowy doves from Cos and the drip of rarest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lesbian vintage;\nFor a regal taste is mine and the glowing\n Zenith-lure and beauty of suns must brighten\n Love for me, that ever upon perfection\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Trembles elusive.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: Love's Banquet","type":"page"}