{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos45.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos45.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nUpon a cushion soft\n \u00a0\u00a0My limbs I place,\n My every garment doffed\n \u00a0\u00a0For deeper grace;\n From burning doves embalmed\n \u00a0\u00a0In baccharis,\n The scented fumes have calmed\n \u00a0\u00a0Me like a kiss.\nBeyond the phallic shrine\n \u00a0\u00a0That tripods light,\n I pledge with holy wine\n \u00a0\u00a0An image white;\n Anadyomene,\n \u00a0\u00a0Than foam more fair,\n When from the ravished sea\n \u00a0\u00a0She rose to air.\nDaughter of God, accept\n \u00a0\u00a0These gifts of mine!\n Last night my body slept\n \u00a0\u00a0In arms divine.\n These sated lips and eyes\n \u00a0\u00a0That erstwhile sued,\n Accord this sacrifice\n \u00a0\u00a0In gratitude.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: The Sacrifice","type":"page"}