The Poems of Sappho

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Excerpt from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition Into EnglishWho shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphora, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the aver age reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson.Then to me so lying awake a visionCame without sleep over the seas and touched me, Softly touched mine eyelids and lips, and I, too, Full of the vision, Saw the white implacable Aphrodite, Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalledShine as fire of sunset on western waters, Saw the reluctantFeet, the straining plumes of the doves that drew her, Looking always, looking with necks revertedBack to Lesbos, back to the hills whereunderShone Mitylene. - Swinburne.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.