{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos18.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos18.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nArtisans, raise high the roof beam!\n Tall is the bridegroom as Ares,\n Taller by far than the tallest,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nAy! towering over his fellows,\n As over men of all other\n Lands towers the Lesbian singer,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nWell-favored, too, is the maiden,\n Eyes that are sweeter than honey,\n Fair both in face and in figure,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nFor there was never another\n Virgin in loveliness like her,\n By Aphrodite so honored,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nO happy bridegroom, the wedding\n Comes to the point of completion;\n Thou hast the maid of thy choosing,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nSee how a paleness suffuses\n Soft o\u2019er her exquisite features,\n Passion's benign premonition,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nGo to the couch unreluctant,\n Rejoicing and sweet to the bridegroom;\n He in his turn is rejoicing,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!\nMay Hesperus lead thee, and Hera,\n She whom to-night that ye honor,\n Silver-throned Goddess of marriage,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Hymen\u00e6us!","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Hymenaios","type":"page"}