Love
Sappho: XLII
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what enchantment allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
And when the rose-petals are scattered
At dead of still noon on the grass-plot,
What means this passionate grief,—
This infinite ache of regret?
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From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XLII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/241/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XLII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/241/.
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