{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos11.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos11.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nWhen the drifting gray of the vesper shadow\n Dimmed their upward path through the midmost azure,\n And the length of night overtook them distant\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Far from Olympus;\nFar away from splendor and joy of Paphos,\n From the voice and smile of their peerless Mistress,\n Back to whom their truant wings were in rapture\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Speeding belated;\nChilled at heart and grieving they drooped their pinions,\n Circled slowly, dipping in flight toward Lesbos,\n Down through dusk that darkened on Mitylene's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Columns of marble;\nDown through glory wan of the fading sunset,\n Veering ever toward the abode of Sappho,\n Toward my home, the fane of the glad devoted\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Slave of the Goddess;\nSoon they gained the tile of my roof and rested,\n Slipped their heads beneath their wings while I watched them\n Sink to sleep and dreams, in the warm and drowsy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Night of midsummer.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: Aphrodite's Doves","type":"page"}