{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos43.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos43.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nI loved you, Atthis, once, long years ago!\n My blood was flame that thrilled to passion's throe;\n Now long neglect has quenched the olden fire,\n And blight of drifting years effaced desire.\nI loved you, Atthis\u2014joy of long ago\u2014\n Love shook my soul as winds on forests blow;\n This lawless heart that dared exhaust delight,\n Unsated strove and maddened through the night.\nI loved you, Atthis, once, long years ago!\n With pain whose surge I felt to anguish grow;\n Suffered the storms that waste the heart and leave\n A desert shore where seas but break to grieve.\nI loved you, Atthis\u2014spring of long ago\u2014\n Watched you depart, to Andromeda go;\n Then I, as keen despair its shadow cast,\n O\u2019er my deserted threshold, sobbing, passed.\nI loved you, Atthis, once, long years ago!\n The thought of me is hateful now, I know;\n And all the lavish tenderness of old\n Has gone from me and left my bosom cold.\nI loved you, Atthis\u2014dream of long ago\u2014\n .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\n How the fond words, impassioned music low,\n Sustain the sigh of love's divine regret\n No length of time may bid the heart forget.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: Ode to Atthis","type":"page"}