{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos07.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos07.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nIf it pleased the whim of Zeus in an idle\n Hour to choose a king for the flowers, he surely\n Would have crowned the rose for its regal beauty,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Deeming it peerless;\nBy its grace is valley and hill embellished,\n Earth is made a shrine for the lover's ardor;\n Dear it is to flowers as the charm of lovely\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eyes are to mortals;\nJoy and pride of plants, and the garden's glory,\n Beauty's blush it brings to the cheek of meadows;\n Draining fire and dew from the dawn for rarest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Color and odor;\nSoftly breathed, its scent is a plea for passion,\n When it blooms to welcome the kiss of Kypris;\n Sheathed in fragrant leaves its tremulous petals\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Laugh in the zephyr.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: The Rose","type":"page"}