{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos72.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos72.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos72.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nBeloved, stand face to face,\n \u00a0\u00a0And, lifting lids, disclose to me the grace,\n The Paphic fire that lingers yet and lies\n \u00a0\u00a0Reflected in thy eyes.\nPhaon, my sole beloved,\n \u00a0\u00a0Stand not to my mad passion all unmoved;\n O let, ere thou to far Panormus sail,\n \u00a0\u00a0One hour of love prevail.\nDear ingrate, come and let\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy breath like odor from a cassolet,\n Thy smile, the clinging touch of lips and heart\n \u00a0\u00a0Anoint me, ere we part.\nPhaon, I yearn and seek\n \u00a0\u00a0But thee alone; and what I feel must speak\n In all these fond and wilful ways of mine,\n \u00a0\u00a0O mortal, made divine!\nMy girl friends now no more\n \u00a0\u00a0Hang their sweet gifts of garlands at my door;\n Dear maids, with all your vanished empery\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye now are naught to me.\nPhaon, thy galley rides\n \u00a0\u00a0Within the harbor's mouth and waits the tides\n And favoring winds, far to the west to fly\n \u00a0\u00a0And leave me here to die.\nThe brawny rowers lean\n \u00a0\u00a0To bend long-stroking oars; and changing scene\n And fairer loves than mine shall soon efface\n \u00a0\u00a0This last divine embrace.\nPhaon, the lifting breeze!\n \u00a0\u00a0See, at thy feet I kneel and clasp thy knees!\n Go not, go not! O hear my sobbing prayer,\n \u00a0\u00a0And yield to my despair!","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Phaon: The Farewell","type":"page"}