Love
Sappho: LXIV
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
Ah, but now henceforth
Only one meaning
Has life for me.
Only one purport,
Measure and beauty,
Has the bright world.
What mean the wood-winds,
Colour and morning,
Bird, stream, and hill?
And the brave city
With its enchantment?
Thee, only thee!
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXIV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/263/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXIV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/263/.
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