{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos06.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos06.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nPeer of Gods to me is the man thy presence\n Crowns with joy; who hears, as he sits beside thee,\n Accents sweet of thy lips the silence breaking,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With lovely laughter;\nTones that make the heart in my bosom flutter,\n For if I, the space of a moment even,\n Near to thee come, any word I would utter\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Instantly fails me;\nVain my stricken tongue would a whisper fashion,\n Subtly under my skin runs fire ecstatic;\n Straightway mists surge dim to my eyes and leave them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Reft of their vision;\nEchoes ring in my ears; a trembling seizes\n All my body bathed in soft perspiration;\n Pale as grass I grow in my passion's madness,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Like one insensate;\nBut must I dare all, since to me unworthy,\n Bliss thy beauty brings that a God might envy;\n Never yet was fervid woman a fairer\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Image of Kypris.\nAh! undying Daughter of God, befriend me!\n Calm my blood that thrills with impending transport;\n Feed my lips the murmur of words to stir her\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bosom to pity;\nOvercome with kisses her faintest protest,\n Melt her mood to mine with amorous couches,\u2014\n Till her low assent and her sigh's abandon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lure me to rapture.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: Ode To Anactoria","type":"page"}