{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap34.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap34.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap34.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nFar o\u2019er the waves my lofty Bark shall glide,\n Love\u2019s frequent sighs the flutt\u2019ring sails shall swell,\n While to my native home I bid farewell,\n Hope\u2019s snowy hand the burnis\u2019d helm shall guide!\n Triton\u2019s shall sport admidst the yielding tide,\n Myriads of Cupids round the prow shall dwell,\n And Venus, thron\u2019d within her opal shell,\n Shall proudly o\u2019er the glitt\u2019ring billows ride!\n Young Dolphins, dashing in the golden spray,\n Shall with their scaly forms illume the deep\n Ting\u2019d with the purple flush of sinking day,\n Whose flaming wreath shall crown the distant steep;\n While on the breezy deck soft minstrels play,\n And songs of love, the lover soothe to sleep!","title":"Sappho and Phaon: XXXI. Describes her Bark.","type":"page"}