Love
My Garden (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
I've a garden, a garden of dreams,
Where the cool breeze whispering sways
Softly the apple-sprays,
And from leaves that shimmer and quiver
Down on mine eyelids streams
A slumber-river.
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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. “My Garden (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/131/.
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Sappho. “My Garden (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/131/.
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