{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos25.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos25.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nI saw a tender maiden plucking flowers\n Once, long ago, in the bright morning hours;\n And then from heaven I saw a sudden cloud\n Fall swift and dark, and heard her cry aloud.\nAgain I looked, but from my open door\n My anxious eyes espied the maid no more;\n The cloud had vanished, bearing her away\n To underlands beyond the smiling day.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Persephone","type":"page"}