{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos42.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos42.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos42.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nAnd down I set the cushion\n Upon the couch that she,\n Relaxed supine upon it,\n Might give her lips to me.\nAs some enamored priestess\n At Aphrodite's shrine,\n Entranced I bent above her\n With sense of the divine.\nShe had, by nature nubile,\n In years a child, no hint\n Of any secret knowledge\n Of passion's least intent.\nHer mouth for immolation\n Was ripe, and mine the art;\n And one long kiss of passion\n Deflowered her virgin heart.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: The First Kiss","type":"page"}