{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos30.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos30.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos30.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nI taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner;\n \u00a0\u00a0Swifter far was she than Atalanta,\n When through clinging fleece of her wind-rippled\n \u00a0\u00a0Garments blushed the glimmer of her limbs.\nI taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner;\n \u00a0\u00a0Lovelier was she than Atalanta,\n When the straining vision of the suitor\n \u00a0\u00a0Saw her beauty mock impending death.\nI taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner,\n \u00a0\u00a0All the singing numbers of Terpander,\n Metres of Archilochus and Alcman,\n \u00a0\u00a0And my melic verse that glows supreme.\nI taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sapphics with their triple surge of music\n Melting in the final verse Adonic,\n \u00a0\u00a0Like the foam fall of a spended wave.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Partheneia: Didaktika: Hero, of Gyara","type":"page"}