{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos41.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos41.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nO Sappho, why art thou ever\n Singing with praises the blessed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Queen of the heaven?\nWhy does the heart in thy bosom\n Ever revert in its yearning\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Throb to the Goddess?\nWhy are thy senses unsated\n Ever in quest of elusive\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Love that is deathless?\nAh, gracious Daughter of Cyprus,\n Never can I as a mortal\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tire of thy service.\nThou art the breath of my body,\n The blood in my veins, and the glowing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pulse of my bosom.\nOmnipotent, burning, resistless,\n Thou art the passion that shaking\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Masters me ever.\nThou art the crisis of rapture\n Relaxing my limbs, and the melting\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ebb of emotion;\nBringing the tears to my lashes,\n Sighs to my lips, in the swooning\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Excess of passion.\nO golden-crowned Aphrodite,\n Grant I shall ever be grateful,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sure of thy favor;\nWorthy the lot of thy priestess,\n Supreme in the song that forever\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rings with thy praises.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: Aphrodite's Praise","type":"page"}