Love
To the Muse of Lyric Song (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
O Queen of Song, who art throned on gold,
Upraise the strain which the singer of old,
Even he of Teos,—the goodly town
Whose daughters wear beauty's royal crown,—
From ravishment-breathing lips outrolled,
A chant of undying renown.
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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. “To the Muse of Lyric Song (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/136/.
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Sappho. “To the Muse of Lyric Song (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/136/.
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