{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap04.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap04.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\n| \"Flendus amor meus est; elegeia flebile carmen; non facit ad lacrymas barbitos ulla meas.\" Ovid. \"Love taught my tears in sadder notes to flow, And tun\u2019d my heart to elegies of woe.\" Pope. | \nFavour\u2019d by Heav\u2019n are those, ordain\u2019d to taste\n The bliss supreme that kindles fancy\u2019s fire;\n Whose magic fingers sweep the muses\u2019 lyre,\n In varying cadence, eloquently chaste!\n Well may the mind, with tuneful numbers grac\u2019d,\n To Fame\u2019s immortal attributes aspire,\n Above the treach\u2019rous spells of low desire,\n That wound the sense, by vulgar joys debas\u2019d.\n For thou, blest Poesy! with godlike pow\u2019rs\n To calm the miseries of man wert giv\u2019n;\n When passion rends, and hopeless love devours,\n By mem\u2019ry goaded, and by frenzy driv\u2019n,\n \u2019Tis thine to guide him \u2019midst Elysian bow\u2019rs,\n And shew his fainting soul,\u2014a glimpse of Heav\u2019n.","title":"Sappho and Phaon: Introductory","type":"page"}