Love
Self-restraint when angered (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
When wrath's wild-surging tide hath broken
The floodgates of thy breast, refrain
Thy tongue, lest words in passion spoken
Be mad and vain.
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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. “Self-restraint when angered (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/137/.
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Sappho. “Self-restraint when angered (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/137/.
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