{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap26.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap26.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nTo \u00c6tna\u2019s scorching sands my Phaon flies!\n False Youth! can other charms attractive prove?\n Say, can Sicilian loves thy passions move,\n Play round thy heart, and fix thy fickle eyes,\n While in despair the Lesbian Sappho dies?\n Has Spring for thee a crown of poppies wove,\n Or dost thou languish in th\u2019 Idalian grove,\n Whose altar kindles, fann\u2019d by Lover\u2019s sighs?\n Ah! think, that while on \u00c6tna\u2019s shores you stray,\n A fire, more fierce than \u00c6tna\u2019s, fills my breast;\n Nor deck Sicilian nymphs with garlands gay,\n While Sappho\u2019s brows with cypress wreaths are drest;\n Let one kind word my weary woes repay,\n Or, in eternal slumbers bid them rest.","title":"Sappho and Phaon: XXIII. Sappho's Conjectures.","type":"page"}