Love
Sappho: XVI
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
In the apple boughs the coolness
Murmurs, and the grey leaves flicker
Where sleep wanders.
In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering footfall
Through the twilight.
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/215/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/215/.
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