Love

Sappho: XXII

by Bliss Carman 1861–1929

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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From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)

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