Love
Sappho: XCVIII
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
I am more tremulous than shaken reeds,
And love has made me like the river water.
Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my changing heart gives heed, my lover.
Before thy least lost murmur I must sigh,
Or gladden with thee as the sun-path glitters.
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Codex Note
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XCVIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/297/.
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Carman, Bliss. “Sappho: XCVIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carman/297/.
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