{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos26.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos26.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nDo I long for maidenhood?\n \u00a0\u00a0Do I long for days\n When upon the mountain slope\n \u00a0\u00a0I would stand and gaze\n Over the \u00c6gean's blue\n \u00a0\u00a0Melting into mist,\n Ere with love my virgin lips\n \u00a0\u00a0Cercolas had kissed?\nMaidenhood, O maidenhood,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whither hast thou flown?\n To a land beyond the sea\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou hast never known.\n Maidenhood, O maidenhood,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wilt return to me?\n Never will my bloom again\n \u00a0\u00a0Give its grace to thee.\nNow the autumn skies are low,\n \u00a0\u00a0Youth and summer sped;\n Shepherd hills are far away,\n \u00a0\u00a0Cercolas is dead.\n Mitylene's marble courts\n \u00a0\u00a0Echo with my name;\u2014\n Maidenhood, we never dreamed,\n \u00a0\u00a0Long ago of fame.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Partheneia: Didaktika: Maidenhood","type":"page"}