Death & Dying
Fragment 68
Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton (1885) · From Fragments
Death & Dying
But thou shalt ever lie dead, nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or thereafter, for thou hast not of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander obscure even in the house of Hades, flitting among the shadowy dead.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Sappho. “Fragment 68.” Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/61/.
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Sappho. “Fragment 68.” Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/61/.
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