{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos36.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos36.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos36.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nLeto and Niobe were friends full dear,\n The Goddess\u2019 heart and woman's heart were one\n In that maternal love that men revere,\n Love that endures when other loves are done.\nBut Niobe with all a mother's pride,\n Artless and foolish, would not be denied;\n And boasted that her children were more fair\n Than Leto's lovely children of the air.\nThe proud Olympians vowed revenge for this,\n Irate Apollo, angered Artemis;\n They slew her children, heedless of her moan,\n And with the last her heart was turned to stone.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Partheneia: Didaktika: Leto And Niobe","type":"page"}