{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/usappho/sph49.htm","path":"cla/usappho/sph49.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph49.htm","text":"\u0394\u03ad\u03b4\u03c5\u03ba\u03b5 \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u1f00 \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1\n \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03a0\u03bb\u03b7\u0390\u03b1\u03b4\u03b5\u03c3, \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u1f72\n \u03bd\u03cd\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03c3 \u03c0\u03ac\u03c1\u03b1 \u03b4\u1fbd \u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u1fbd \u1f64\u03c1\u03b1,\n \u1f14\u03b3\u03c9 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b4\u03c9.\u00a0[transcription]\n \nThe moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the time is going by and I recline alone.\nThe sinking moon has left the sky,\n The Pleiades have also gone.\n Midnight comes--and goes, the hours fly\n And solitary still, I lie.\nThe Moon has left the sky,\n Lost is the Pleiads' light;\n It is midnight,\n And time slips by,\n But on my couch alone I lie.\n J. A. Symonds, 1883.\nThis singularly beautiful fragment is quoted by Hephaestion as an example of metre. With the \"Hymn to Aphrodite\" it was the first portion of the Poems of Sappho to be printed in 1554.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: 48: The moon has set...","type":"page"}