{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos44.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos44.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nLess soft a Tyrian robe\n \u00a0\u00a0Of texture fine,\n Less delicate a rose\n \u00a0\u00a0Than flesh of thine.\nWhiter thy breast than snow\n \u00a0\u00a0That virgin lies,\n And deeper than the blue\n \u00a0\u00a0Of seas thy eyes.\nMore golden than the fruit\n \u00a0\u00a0Of orange trees,\n Thy locks that floating lure\n \u00a0\u00a0The satyr breeze.\nLess fine of silver string\n \u00a0\u00a0An Orphic lyre,\n Less sweet than thy low laugh\n \u00a0\u00a0That wakes desire.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: Comparison","type":"page"}