Love
Sappho: LXIII
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
A beautiful child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
And above her I value
Not all the Lydian land,
Nor lovely Hellas.
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/262/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/262/.
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