{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos65.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos65.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos65.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nAnagora, fairest\n Spoil of fateful battle,\n Babylonian temples\n Knew thy luring song.\nWrested from barbaric\n Captors for thy beauty,\n Thou wert made a priestess\n At Mylitta's shrine.\nOnce these flexile fingers\n Clasped in mine so closely,\n Neath the temple's arches\n Thrummed the tabor soft.\nThou hast taught me secrets\n Of the cryptic chambers,\n How the zonahs worship\n In the burning East;\nRaptures that my wildest\n Dreaming never pictured,\n Arts of love that charmed me,\n Subtle, new and strange.\nHearken to my earnest\n Prayer, O Aphrodite!\n May the night be doubled\n Now for our delight.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Girl Friends: Anagora","type":"page"}