{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos56.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos56.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos56.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nAphrodite's handmaid,\n Bright as gold thou camest,\n Tender woven garlands\n Round thy tender neck;\nSweet as soft Persuasion,\n Lissome as the Graces,\n Shy Euneica, lovely\n Girl from Salamis.\nSlender thou as Syrinx,\n As the waving reed-nymph,\n Once by Pan, the god of\n Summer winds, deflowered.\nOn thy lips whose quiver\n Seems to plead for pity,\n Mine shall rest and linger\n Like the mouth of Pan\nOn the mouth of Syrinx,\n When his breath that filled her\n Blew through all her body\n Music of his love.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Girl Friends: Euneica","type":"page"}