Love
On a girl who died on the eve of her marriage (Fragment 119) (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Lo the dust of young Timas. Ere dawned her day of espousals upon her,
Death claimed her: her bridal-bower was Persephone's mansion of gloom.
When she perished, her fair companions all with the steel in her honour
Shore from their heads the lovely tresses, and laid on her tomb.
Codex Note
Way weaves several fragments in the same metre into one connected poem (his preface); the joins are his.
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MLA
Sappho. “On a girl who died on the eve of her marriage (Fragment 119) (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/156/.
Chicago
Sappho. “On a girl who died on the eve of her marriage (Fragment 119) (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/156/.
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