{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap19.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap19.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nDelusive Hope! more transient than the ray\n That leads pale twilight to her dusky bed,\n O\u2019er woodland glen, or breezy mountain\u2019s head,\n Ling\u2019ring to catch the parting sigh of day.\n Hence with thy visionary charms, away!\n Nor o\u2019er my path the flow\u2019rs of fancy spread;\n Thy airy dreams on peaceful pillows shed,\n And weave for thoughtless brows, a garland gay.\n Farewell low vallies; dizzy cliffs, farewell!\n Small vagrant rills that murmur as ye flow:\n Dark bosom\u2019d labyrinth and thorny dell;\n The task be mine all pleasures to forego;\n To hide, where meditation loves to dwell,\n And feed my soul, with luxury of woe!","title":"Sappho and Phaon: XVI. Sappho rejects Hope.","type":"page"}