Love
The Moon and Stars (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
The stars that round the Queen of Night
Like maids attend her
Hide as in veils of mist their light
When she, in full-orbed glory bright,
O'er all the earth shines from her height,
A silver splendour.
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Codex Note
Way weaves several fragments in the same metre into one connected poem (his preface); the joins are his.
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Sappho. “The Moon and Stars (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/130/.
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Sappho. “The Moon and Stars (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/130/.
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