{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos68.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos68.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos68.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nDaughter of Pandion, lovely\n Swallow that veers at my window,\n Swift on the flood of the sunshine\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Darting thy shadow;\nWhat is thy innocent purpose,\n Why dost thou hover and haunt me?\n Is it a kinship of sorrow\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Brings thee anear me?\nMust thou forever be tongueless,\n Flying in fear of Tereus?\n Must he for Itys pursue thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Changed to a lapwing?\nTireless of pinion and never\n Resting on bush or the branches,\n Close to the earth, up the azure,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Over the treetops;\nAfter thy wing in its madness\n Follows my glance, as a flitting\n Child on the track of its mother\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hastens in silence.\nDaughter of Pandion, lovely\n Swallow that veers at my window,\n Hast thou a message from Cyprus\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Telling of Phaon?","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Phaon: The Swallow","type":"page"}