{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos54.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos54.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos54.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nDeftly on my little\n Seven-stringed barbitos,\n Now to please my girl friends\n Songs I set to music.\nMaidens fair, companions\n Of the Muses, never\n Toward you shall my feelings\n Undergo a change.\nChanted in a plaintive\n Old Ionic measure,\n All the songs I give you\n Are the songs of love.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Girl Friends: Prelude","type":"page"}