Love
Sappho: LXXVII
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
Hour by hour I sit,
Watching the silent door.
Shadows go by on the wall,
And steps in the street.
Expectation and doubt
Flutter my timorous heart.
So many hurrying home—
And thou still away.
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXXVII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/276/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: LXXVII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/276/.
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