{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos50.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos50.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos50.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nCountless are the cups thou drainest\n In thy hymns to Dionysos,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Alc\u00e6us!\nWar and wine alone thou singest;\u2014\n Wherefore not of Aphrodite,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Alc\u00e6us!\nSpacious halls are thine where many\n Trophies hang in Ares\u2019 honor,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Alc\u00e6us!\nBrazen shields and shining helmets,\n Plates of brass, Chalcidian broad-swords,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Alc\u00e6us!\nWhen with winter roars the Thracian\n North wind through the leafless forest,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Alc\u00e6us!\nThou dost heap the fire and banish\n Care with many a tawny goblet,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Alc\u00e6us!","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: To Alc\u00e6us","type":"page"}