{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos16.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos16.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nKypris, hear my prayer to thee and the Nereids!\n Safely bring the ship of my brother homewards,\n Bring him back unharmed to the heart that loves him,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Throbbing remorseful;\nFair Immortal, banish from mind, I pray thee,\n Every discord's hint that of yore estranged us;\n Grant that never again dissension's hateful\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wrangle shall part us;\nMay he never in days to come remember\n Keen reproach of mine that had grieved him sorely;\n Words that broke my very heart when I heard them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Uttered by others;\nWords that wounded deep and recurring often,\n Bowed his head with shame at the public banquet;\n Where my scorn, amid festal joy and laughter,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sharpened the covert\nJests that stung his pride and assailed his folly,\n Slave-espoused when he, a Lesbian noble,\n Might have won the fairest in Mitylene,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Virgins the noblest;\nOpen slurs that linked his name with Doricha,\n Lovely slave that Xanthes had sold in Egypt;\n She whose wondrous charms the wealth of Charaxus\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ransomed from bondage.\nNow that he is gone and my anger vanished,\n Keen regret and grief for the pain I gave him\n Pierce my heart, and fear of loss that is anguish\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Darkens the daylight.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: The Reproach","type":"page"}