{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos66.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos66.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos66.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nPhilomel in my garden,\n Messenger sweet of springtide,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From the bough of the olive tree utter\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tidings ecstatic.\nLinger long on thy olden\n Note as in days remembered;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ere the Boatman that knew Aphrodite\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ravished my vision.\nFatal glamor of beauty,\n Beauty of Gods made mortal;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ah, before its delight I am ever\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fearful of heaven.\nSpring in breeze and the blossom,\n Grasses and leaves and odors,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On my heart with the breath of a vanished\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0April is shaken;\nShaken with thrill and regret of\n Lost caresses and kisses;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Anactoria's memory, Atthis\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Never forgotten.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Phaon: Philomel","type":"page"}