{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos64.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos64.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos64.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nCold of heart and strangely\n Uninclined to passion,\n Wisdom's vigil leaves thee,\n Proud Damophyla.\nSapphics thou hast written,\n Verses in my metre,\n With a skill surpassing\n In the melic art.\nLove's superb enchantment\n Thou art fain to banish,\n Like the virgin Huntress\n Long by thee adored.\nMolded by thy tunic,\n Every arching contour\n Of her chaste and noble\n Form I dream to see;\nEven view her stepping\n From the leafy covert\n Down the dawn-white valley,\n Stately as a stag.\nLong I sued but found thee\n Deaf to all entreaty,\n Till one summer twilight\n Listless in the heat;\nSoothed by slumber's languor,\n And my low monodic\n Voice that hymned a p\u00e6an\n In the praise of love;\nLoth to yield yet vanquished,\n As I knelt beside thee,\n All thy long resistance\n To my kiss succumbed.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Girl Friends: Damophyla","type":"page"}