{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap25.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap25.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nWild is the foaming Sea! The surges roar!\n And nimbly dart the livid lightnings round!\n On the rent rock the angry waves rebound;\n Ah me! the less\u2019ning bark is seen no more!\n Along the margin of the trembling shore,\n Loud as the blast my frantic cries shall sound,\n My storm-drench\u2019d limbs the flinty fragments wound,\n And o\u2019er my bleeding breast the billows pour!\n Phaon! return! ye winds, O! waft the strain\n To his swift bark; ye barb\u2019rous waves forbear!\n Taunt not the anguish of a lover\u2019s brain,\n Nor feebly emulate the soul\u2019s despair!\n For howling winds, and foaming seas, in vain\n Assail the breast, when passion rages there!","title":"Sappho and Phaon: XXII. Phaon forsakes her.","type":"page"}