Death & Dying
A Bitter Word
Translated by Rennell Rodd (1916) · From Love, Worship and Death (1916)
Death & Dying
Dying thou shalt lie in nothingness, nor after
Love shall abide here nor memory of thee;
For thou hast no portion in the roses of Pieria;
But even in the nether world obscurely shalt thou wander
Flitting hither thither with the phantoms of the dead.
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Sappho. “A Bitter Word.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/160/.
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Sappho. “A Bitter Word.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/160/.
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