Love
Fragment 40
Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton (1885) · From Fragments
Love
Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.
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MLA
Sappho. “Fragment 40.” Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/36/.
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Sappho. “Fragment 40.” Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/36/.
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