{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap37.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap37.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap37.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nVenus! to thee, the Lesbian Muse shall sing,\n The song, which Myttellenian youths admir\u2019d, \n when Echo, am\u2019rous of the strain inspir\u2019d,\n Bade the wild rocks with madd\u2019ning plaudits ring!\n Attend my pray\u2019r! O! Queen of rapture! bring\n To these fond arms, he, whom my soul has fir\u2019d;\n From these fond arms remov\u2019d; yet, still desir\u2019d,\n Though love, exulting, spreads his varying wing!\n Oh! source of ev\u2019ry joy! of ev\u2019ry care\n Blest Venus! Goddess of the zone divine!\n To Phaon\u2019s bosom, Phaon\u2019s victim bear;\n So shall her warmest, tend\u2019rest vows be thine!\n For Venus, Sappho shall a wreath prepare,\n And Love be crown\u2019d, immortal as the Nine!","title":"Sappho and Phaon: XXXIV. Sappho's Prayer to Venus.","type":"page"}