Living

Fragment 93

by Sappho c. 630 – c. 570 BC

Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton (1885) · From Fragments

Living

As the sweet-apple blushes on the end of the bough, the very end of the bough, which the gatherers overlooked, nay overlooked not but could not reach.

MLA

Sappho. “Fragment 93.” Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/85/.

Chicago

Sappho. “Fragment 93.” Translated by Henry Thornton Wharton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sappho/85/.

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