Love
Sappho: LXXV
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
Tell me what this life means,
O my prince and lover,
With the autumn sunlight
On thy bronze-gold head?
With thy clear voice sounding
Through the silver twilight,—
What is the lost secret
Of the tacit earth?
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXXV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/274/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXXV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/274/.
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