Love
To a Girl in a Garden (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
O soft and dainty maiden, from afar
I watch you, as amidst the flowers you move,
And pluck them, singing.
More golden than all gold your tresses are:
Never was harp-note like your voice, my love,
Your voice sweet-ringing.
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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 a Girl in a Garden (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/151/.
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Sappho. “To a Girl in a Garden (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/151/.
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