{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos17.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos17.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nLong ago beloved, thy memory, Atthis,\n Saddens still my heart as the soft \u00c6olic\n Twilight deepens down on the sea, and fitful\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Winds that have wandered\nOver groves of myrtle at Amathonte\n Waft forgotten passion on breaths of perfume.\n Long ago, how madly I loved thee, Atthis!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Faithless, light-hearted\nLoved one, mine no more, who lovest another\n More than me; the silent flute and the faded\n Garlands haunt the heart of me thou forgettest,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Long since thy lover.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Sapphics: Long Ago","type":"page"}