Love
Sappho: XXII
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
Once you lay upon my bosom,
While the long blue-silver moonlight
Walked the plain, with that pure passion
All your own.
Now the moon is gone, the Pleiads
Gone, the dead of night is going;
Slips the hour, and on my bed
I lie alone.
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XXII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/221/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XXII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/221/.
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