Love
Fragment-poem 26 (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
A daughter have I: she is fair, is fair!
Graceful and tall does my darling stand
As a sunflower gleaming with golden hair!
O, all the treasures of Morning-land
Were but as dust in the balance laid,
Beside her, my Cleïs, my little maid!
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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. “Fragment-poem 26 (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/153/.
Chicago
Sappho. “Fragment-poem 26 (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/153/.
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