{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos14.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos14.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nCome, ye dainty Graces and lovely Muses,\n Rosy-armed and pure and with fairest tresses,\n Come from groves on Helicon's hill where murmur\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Founts that are holy;\nCome with dancing step and with lips harmonic,\n Gather near and view my ivory distaff,\n Gift from Cos my brother Charaxus brought me,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sailing from Egypt;\nSailing back to Lesbos from far Naucratis,\n From the seven mouths of the Nile and Egypt\n Up the blue \u00c6gean, the island-dotted\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ocean of Hellas;\nChoicest wool alone will I spin for fabrics,\n Winding reel with threads for the cloths as fleecy,\n Soft and fine as they bring from far Phocea,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sidon or Sardis;\nWhile I weave my thought shall engird the giver,\n Whether here, or far on the sea, or resting\n Couched in shady courts with the lovely garland\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Girls of Naucratis.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: The Distaff","type":"page"}