{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos62.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos62.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos62.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nHaughtier than thou, O fair Erinna,\n I have never met with any maiden.\nSuch a careless scorn as thine for passion\n Proves a dire affront to Aphrodite.\nWhen with soft desire she wounds thy bosom,\n Thou shalt know love's pain and doubly suffer.\nKeep the gifts I gave thee, long rejected;\n Fabrics for thy lap from far Phocea,\nBabylonian unguents, scented sandals,\n And the costly mitra for thy tresses;\nTripods worked in brass to flank the altar\n With the ivory figure of the Goddess;\nWhere the sacrificial fumes from sacred\n Flames shall rise to gladden and appease her,\nIn the hour when at her call thy fervid\n Breast and mouth to mine shall be relinquished.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Girl Friends: Erinna","type":"page"}