{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap08.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap08.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nO! How can Love exulting Reason queil!\n How fades each nobler passion from his gaze!\n E\u2019en Fame, that cherishes the Poet\u2019s lays,\n That fame, ill-fated Sappho lov\u2019d so well.\n Lost is the wretch, who in his fatal spell\n Wastes the short Summer of delicious days,\n And from the tranquil path of wisdom strays,\n In passion\u2019s thorny wild, forlorn to dwell.\n O ye! who in that sacred Temple smile\n Where holy Innocence resides enshrin\u2019d;\n Who fear not sorrow, and who know not guile,\n Each thought compos\u2019d, and ev\u2019ry wish resign\u2019d;\n Tempt not the path where pleasure\u2019s flow\u2019ry wile\n In sweet, but pois\u2019nous fetters, holds the mind.","title":"Sappho and Phaon: V. Contemns its Power.","type":"page"}