Love

Sappho: XCIV

by Bliss Carman 1861–1929

From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)

Love

Cold is the wind where Daphne sleeps,
That was so tender and so warm
With loving,—with a loveliness
Than her own laurel lovelier.

Now pipes the bitter wind for her,
And the snow sifts about her door,
While far below her frosty hill
The racing billows plunge and boom.

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From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)

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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XCIV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/293/.

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