{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap09.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap09.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nIs it to love, to fix the tender gaze,\n To hide the timid blush, and steal away;\n To shun the busy world, and waste the day\n In some rude mountain\u2019s solitary maze?\n Is it to chant one name in ceaseless lays,\n To hear no words that other tongues can say,\n To watch the pale moon\u2019s melancholy ray,\n To chide in fondness, and in folly praise?\n Is it to pour th\u2019 involuntary sigh,\n To dream of bliss, and wake new pangs to prove;\n To talk, in fancy, with the speaking eye,\n Then start with jealousy, and wildly rove;\n Is it to loathe the light, and wish to die?\n For these I feel,\u2014and feel that they are Love.","title":"Sappho and Phaon: VI. Describes the characteristics of Love.","type":"page"}