Love
On one whose days were labour and sorrow (Fragment 120) (Way)
Translated by Arthur S. Way (1920) · From Sappho and the Vigil of Venus (1920)
Love
O'er the fisherman Pelagon here by Meniskus his father are planted
His oar and his weel, for memorials of days ever travail-haunted.
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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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MLA
Sappho. “On one whose days were labour and sorrow (Fragment 120) (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/157/.
Chicago
Sappho. “On one whose days were labour and sorrow (Fragment 120) (Way).” Translated by Arthur S. Way. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/157/.
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