{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos13.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos13.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nDreaming I spake with the Daughter of Cyprus,\n Heard the languor soft of her voice, the blended\n Suave accord of tones interfused with laughter\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Low and desireful;\nDreaming saw her dread ineffable beauty,\n Saw through texture fine of her clinging tunic\n Blush the fire of flesh, the rose of her body,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Radiant, blinding;\nSaw through filmy meshes the melting lovely\n Flow of line, the exquisite curves, whence piercing\n Rapture reached with tangible touch to thrill me,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Almost to slay me;\nSaw the gleaming foot, and the golden sandal\n Held by straps of Lydian work thrice doubled\n Over the instep's arch, and up the rounded\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dazzling ankle;\nSaw the charms that shimmered from knee to shoulder,\n Hint of hues, than milk or the snowdrift whiter;\n Secret grace, the shrine of the soul of passion,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Glows that consumed me;\nSaw the gathered mass of her xanthic tresses,\n Mitra-bound, escape from the clasping fillet,\n Float and shine as clouds in the sunset splendor,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mists in the dawn-fire;\nSaw the face immortal, and daring greatly,\n Raised my eyes to hers of unfathomed azure,\n Drank their world's desire, their limitless longing,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Swooned and was nothing.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: The Daughter of Cyprus","type":"page"}