{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos22.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos22.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos22.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nAh, for Adonis!\n See, he is dying,\n Delicate, lovely,\n Slender Adonis.\nAh, for Adonis!\n Weep, O ye maidens,\n Beating your bosoms,\n Rending your tunics.\nO Cytherea,\n Hasten, for never\n Loved thou another\n As thy Adonis.\nSee, on the rosy\n Cheek with its dimple,\n Blushing no longer,\n Thanatos\u2019 shadow.\nSave him, O Goddess!\n Thou, the beguiler,\n All-powerful, holy,\n Stay the dread evil.\nAh, for Adonis!\n No more at vintage\n Time will he come with\n Bloom of the meadows.\nAh, for Adonis!\n See, he is dying,\n Fading as flowers\n With the lost summer.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Lament For Adonis","type":"page"}