{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos19.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos19.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nBride, that goest to the bridal chamber\n In the dove-drawn car of Aphrodite,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By a band of dimpled\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Loves surrounded;\nBride, of maidens all the fairest image\n Mitylene treasures of the Goddess,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rosy-ankled Graces\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Are thy playmates;\nBride, O fair and lovely, thy companions\n Are the gracious hours that onward passing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For thy gladsome footsteps\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Scatter garlands.\nBride, that blushing like the sweetest apple\n On the very branch's end, so strangely\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Overlooked, ungathered\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By the gleaners;\nBride, that like the apple that was never\n Overlooked but out of reach so plainly,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Only one thy rarest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fruit may gather;\nBride, that into womanhood has ripened\n For the harvest of the bridegroom only,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He alone shall taste thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hoarded sweetness.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Bridal Song","type":"page"}