{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos74.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos74.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos74.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nA far-seen cliff\n Stands in the western sea\n Toward Cephallenian lands.\nApollo's temple crowns\n Its whitened crest,\n And at its base\n The waves eternal beat.\nIts leap has power\n To cure the pangs\n Of unrequited love.\nThither pale lovers go\n With anguished hearts\n To dare the deep and quench\n Love's slow consuming flame.\nUrged to the edge\n By maddening desire,\n I, too, shall fling myself\n Imploring thee,\n Apollo, lord and king!\nInto the chill\n Embraces of the sea,\n Less cold than thine, O Phaon,\n I shall fall\u2014\n Fall with the flutter of a wounded dove;\nAnd I shall rise\n Indifferent forever to love's dream,\n Or find below\n The sea's eternal voice,\n Eternal peace.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Phaon: The Cliff of Leucas","type":"page"}