{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos12.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos12.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nGolden-Throned Muse, sing the song that in olden\n Days was sung of love and delight in Teos,\n In the goodly land of the lovely women:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Strains that in other\nYears the hoary bard with the youthful fancy\n Set to mirthful stir of flutes, when the dancing\n Nymphs that poured the wine for the poet's banquet\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mixed it with kisses;\nSing the song while I, in the arms of Atthis,\n Seal her lips to mine with a lover's fervor,\n Breathe her breath and drink her sighs to the honeyed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lull of the melics.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: Anacreon's Song","type":"page"}