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Title: The Poems of Sappho An Interpretative Rendition into English
Author: Sappho
Translator: John Myers O'Hara
Release Date: February 22, 2013 [EBook #42166]
Language: English
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The Poems of Sappho
An Interpretative Rendition into English
BY
JOHN MYERS O'HARA
PORTLAND: MDCCCCX
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Cups of amber gold thy delicate nectar, Subtly mixed with fire that will swiftly kindle
Love in our bosoms;
Thus the bowl ambrosial was stirred in Paphos For the feast, and taking the burnished ladle, Hermes poured the wine for the Gods who lifted
Reverent beakers;
High they held their goblets and made libation, Spilling wine as pledge to the Fates and Hades Quaffing deep and binding their hearts to Eros,
Lauding thy servant.
So to me and my Lesbians round me gathered, Each made mine, an amphor of love long tasted, Bid us drink, who sigh for thy thrill ecstatic,
Passion's full goblet;
Grant me this, O Kypris, and on thy altar Dawn will see a goat of the breed of Naxos, Snowy doves from Cos and the drip of rarest
Lesbian vintage;
For a regal taste is mine and the glowing Zenith-lure and beauty of suns must brighten Love for me, that ever upon perfection
Trembles elusive.
MOON AND STARS
When the moon at full on the sill of heaven Lights her beacon, flooding the earth with silver, All the shining stars that about her cluster
Hide their fair faces;
So when Anactoria's beauty dazzles Sight of mine, grown dim with the joy it gives me, Gorgo, Atthis, Gyrinno, all the others
Fade from my vision.
ODE TO ANACTORIA
Peer of Gods to me is the man thy presence Crowns with joy; who hears, as he sits beside thee, Accents sweet of thy lips the silence breaking,
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With lovely laughter;
Tones that make the heart in my bosom flutter, For if I, the space of a moment even, Near to thee come, any word I would utter
Instantly fails me;
Vain my stricken tongue would a whisper fashion, Subtly under my skin runs fire ecstatic; Straightway mists surge dim to my eyes and leave them
Reft of their vision;
Echoes ring in my ears; a trembling seizes All my body bathed in soft perspiration; Pale as grass I grow in my passion's madness,
Like one insensate;
But must I dare all, since to me unworthy, Bliss thy beauty brings that a God might envy; Never yet was fervid woman a fairer
Image of Kypris.
Ah! undying Daughter of God, befriend me! Calm my blood that thrills with impending transport; Feed my lips the murmur of words to stir her
Bosom to pity;
Overcome with kisses her faintest protest, Melt her mood to mine with amorous touches, Till her low assent and her sigh's abandon
Lure me to rapture.
THE ROSE
If it pleased the whim of Zeus in an idle Hour to choose a king for the flowers, he surely Would have crowned the rose for its regal beauty,
Deeming it peerless;
By its grace is valley and hill embellished, Earth is made a shrine for the lover's ardor; Dear it is to flowers as the charm of lovely
Eyes are to mortals;
Joy and pride of plants, and the garden's glory, Beauty's blush it brings to the cheek of meadows; Draining fire and dew from the dawn for rarest
Color and odor;
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Softly breathed, its scent is a plea for passion, When it blooms to welcome the kiss of Kypris; Sheathed in fragrant leaves its tremulous petals
Laugh in the zephyr.
ODE TO APHRODITE
Aphrodite, subtle of soul and deathless, Daughter of God, weaver of wiles, I pray thee Neither with care, dread Mistress, nor with anguish,
Slay thou my spirit!
But in pity hasten, come now if ever From afar of old when my voice implored thee, Thou hast deigned to listen, leaving the golden
House of thy father
With thy chariot yoked; and with doves that drew thee, Fair and fleet around the dark earth from heaven, Dipping vibrant wings down the azure distance,
Through the mid-ether;
Very swift they came; and thou, gracious Vision, Leaned with face that smiled in immortal beauty, Leaned to me and asked, "What misfortune threatened?
Why I had called thee?"
"What my frenzied heart craved in utter yearning, Whom its wild desire would persuade to passion? What disdainful charms, madly worshipped, slight thee?
Who wrongs thee, Sappho?"
"She that fain would fly, she shall quickly follow, She that now rejects, yet with gifts shall woo thee, She that heeds thee not, soon shall love to madness,
Love thee, the loth one!"
Come to me now thus, Goddess, and release me From distress and pain; and all my distracted Heart would seek, do thou, once again fulfilling,
Still be my ally!
SUMMER
Slumber streams from quivering leaves that listless
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Bask in heat and stillness of Lesbian summer; Breathless swoons the air with the apple-blossoms'
Delicate odor;
From the shade of branches that droop and cover Shallow trenches winding about the orchard, Restful comes, and cool to the sense, the flowing
Murmur of water.
THE GARDEN OF THE NYMPHS
All around through the apple boughs in blossom Murmur cool the breezes of early summer, And from leaves that quiver above me gently
Slumber is shaken;
Glades of poppies swoon in the drowsy languor, Dreaming roses bend, and the oleanders Bask and nod to drone of bees in the silent
Fervor of noontide;
Myrtle coverts hedging the open vista, Dear to nightly frolic of Nymph and Satyr, Yield a mossy bed for the brown and weary
Limbs of the shepherd.
Echo ever wafts through the drooping frondage, Ceaseless silver murmur of water falling In the grotto cool of the Nymphs, the sacred
Haunt of Immortals;
Down the sides of rocks that are gray and lichened Trickle tiny rills, whose expectant tinkle Drips with gurgle hushed in the clear glimmering
Depths of the basin.
Fair on royal couches of leaves recumbent, Interspersed with languor of waxen lilies, Lotus flowers empurple the pool whose edge is
Cushioned with mosses;
Here recline the Nymphs at the hour of twilight, Back in shadows dim of the cave, their golden Sea-green eyes half lidded, up to their supple
Waists in the water.
Sheltered once by ferns I espied them binding Tresses long, the tint of lilac and orange;
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Silver-throned Goddess of marriage, O Hymenæus!
BRIDAL SONG
Bride, that goest to the bridal chamber In the dove-drawn car of Aphrodite,
By a band of dimpled Loves surrounded;
Bride, of maidens all the fairest image Mitylene treasures of the Goddess,
Rosy-ankled Graces Are thy playmates;
Bride, O fair and lovely, thy companions Are the gracious hours that onward passing
For thy gladsome footsteps Scatter garlands.
Bride, that blushing like the sweetest apple On the very branch's end, so strangely
Overlooked, ungathered By the gleaners;
Bride, that like the apple that was never Overlooked but out of reach so plainly,
Only one thy rarest Fruit may gather;
Bride, that into womanhood has ripened For the harvest of the bridegroom only,
He alone shall taste thy Hoarded sweetness.
EPITHALAMIUM
Vesper is here! behold Faint gleams that welcome shine!
Rise from the feast, O youths, And chant the fescennine!
Before the porch we sing The hymeneal song;
Vesper is here, O youths! The star we waited long.
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I would stand and gaze Over the Ægean's blue
Melting into mist, Ere with love my virgin lips
Cercolas had kissed?
Maidenhood, O maidenhood, Whither hast thou flown?
To a land beyond the sea Thou hast never known.
Maidenhood, O maidenhood, Wilt return to me?
Never will my bloom again Give its grace to thee.
Now the autumn skies are low, Youth and summer sped;
Shepherd hills are far away, Cercolas is dead.
Mitylene's marble courts Echo with my name;—
Maidenhood, we never dreamed, Long ago of fame.
EVER MAIDEN
I shall be ever maiden, Ever the little child,
In my passionate quest for the lovely, By earth's glad wonder beguiled.
I shall be ever maiden, Standing in soul apart,
For the Gods give the secret of beauty Alone to the virgin heart.
CLËIS
Daughter of mine, so fair, With a form like a golden flower,
Wherefore thy pensive air And the dreams in the myrtle bower?
Clëis, beloved, thy eyes That are turned from my gaze, thy hand
That trembles so, I prize
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More than all the Lydian land;
More than the lovely hills With the Lesbian olive crowned;—
Tell me, darling, what ills In the gloom of thy thought are found?
Daughter of mine, come near And thy head on my knees recline;
Whisper and never fear, For the beat of thy heart is mine.
Sweet mother, I can turn With content to my loom no more;
My bosom throbs, I yearn For a youth that my eyes adore;
Lykas of Eresus, Whom I knew when a little child;
My heart by Love is thus With the sweetest of pain beguiled.
ASPIRATION
I do not think with my two arms to touch the sky, I do not dream to do almighty things;
So small a singing bird may never soar so high, To beat the sapphire fire with baffled wings.
I do not think with my two arms to touch the sky, I do not dream by any chance to share
With deathless Gods the bliss of Paphos they deny To men behind the azure veil of air.
HERO, OF GYARA
I taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner; Swifter far was she than Atalanta,
When through clinging fleece of her wind-rippled Garments blushed the glimmer of her limbs.
I taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner; Lovelier was she than Atalanta,
When the straining vision of the suitor Saw her beauty mock impending death.
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Relaxed and faint, with passion quivered through; Exhausted with spent thrills of dread delight, A sudden darkness rushing on my sight.
PASSION
Now Love shakes my soul, a mighty Wind from the high mountain falling Full on the oaks of the forest;
Now, limb-relaxing, it masters My life and implacable thrills me, Rending with anguish and rapture.
Now my heart, paining my bosom, Pants with desire as a mænad Mad for the orgiac revel.
Now under my skin run subtle Arrows of flame, and my body Quivers with surge of emotion.
Now long importunate yearnings Vanquish with surfeit my reason; Fainting my senses forsake me.
APHRODITE'S PRAISE
O Sappho, why art thou ever Singing with praises the blessed
Queen of the heaven?
Why does the heart in thy bosom Ever revert in its yearning
Throb to the Goddess?
Why are thy senses unsated Ever in quest of elusive
Love that is deathless?
Ah, gracious Daughter of Cyprus, Never can I as a mortal
Tire of thy service.
Thou art the breath of my body, The blood in my veins, and the glowing
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Pulse of my bosom.
Omnipotent, burning, resistless, Thou art the passion that shaking
Masters me ever.
Thou art the crisis of rapture Relaxing my limbs, and the melting
Ebb of emotion;
Bringing the tears to my lashes, Sighs to my lips, in the swooning
Excess of passion.
O golden-crowned Aphrodite, Grant I shall ever be grateful,
Sure of thy favor;
Worthy the lot of thy priestess, Supreme in the song that forever
Rings with thy praises.
THE FIRST KISS
And down I set the cushion Upon the couch that she, Relaxed supine upon it, Might give her lips to me.
As some enamored priestess At Aphrodite's shrine, Entranced I bent above her With sense of the divine.
She had, by nature nubile, In years a child, no hint Of any secret knowledge Of passion's least intent.
Her mouth for immolation Was ripe, and mine the art; And one long kiss of passion Deflowered her virgin heart.
ODE TO ATTHIS
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White arms that cling, white breast that burns to breast, When the long night of love shall banish rest.
GIRL FRIENDS
PRELUDE
Deftly on my little Seven-stringed barbitos, Now to please my girl friends Songs I set to music.
Maidens fair, companions Of the Muses, never Toward you shall my feelings Undergo a change.
Chanted in a plaintive Old Ionic measure, All the songs I give you Are the songs of love.
ANDROMEDA What bucolic maiden Now thy heart bewitches, O my Andromeda Of the strange amours? Round her awkward ankles She has not the faintest Sense of art to draw her Long ungraceful tunic. Yet she surely makes thee, O my Andromeda, For thy sweet unlawful Love a fair requital. Joy and praise attend thee, In thy keen perceptive Taste for beauty, daughter Of Polyanax! Of Polyanax!
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EUNEICA
Aphrodite's handmaid, Bright as gold thou earnest, Tender woven garlands Round thy tender neck;
Sweet as soft Persuasion, Lissome as the Graces, Shy Euneica, lovely Girl from Salamis.
Slender thou as Syrinx, As the waving reed-nymph, Once by Pan, the god of Summer winds, deflowered.
On thy lips whose quiver Seems to plead for pity, Mine shall rest and linger Like the mouth of Pan
On the mouth of Syrinx, When his breath that filled her Blew through all her body Music of his love.
GORGO
Gorgo, I am weary Of thy love's insistence, Thou to me appearest An ill-favored child.
Though I am than Gello Fonder still of virgins, Toward thee I have never Felt the least desire.
Yesternight I knew not What to do, for pity Moved my bosom deeply, Seeing thee implore.
Harassed by alternate Yielding and refusal, I was half persuaded Then to grant thy prayer.
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At my door thy presence Lingers like a shadow; Vain wouldst thou reproach me With appealing eyes.
Dost thou think by constant Proofs of lasting passion, Slowly my obdurate Will to wear away?
Gorgo, I am weary Of thy love's insistence, And my strength exhausted Grants thy wish at last.
MNASIDICA
Set, O Dica, garlands on thy lovely Glinting mass of fine and golden tresses, Sprays of dill with fingers soft entwining While I stand apart to better judge.
Those who have fair wreaths about the forehead, Breathing brentheian odor to the senses, Ever first find favor with the Graces Who from wreathless suppliants turn away.
Dica, Mnasidica, thou art shapely With the flowing curves of Aphrodite; Eyes the color of her azure ocean Washing wide on Cyprus' languid shore.
In thy every movement grace unconscious Sways the rhythmic poem of thy body, Charming with elusive undulation Like a splendid lily in the wind.
As I stand apart to judge the better Fair effects that roses add to beauty, All thy rays of loveliness concentered Sun me till I swoon with swift desire.
TELESIPPA
Sleep thou in the bosom
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Of thy tender girl friend, Telesippa, gentle Maiden from Miletus.
Like twin petals shyly Closing to the darkness, Dewy on your drooping Lids shall fall her kisses.
While her arms enfold you, On your drowsy senses Shall her soft caresses Seal delicious languor.
Warm from her desireful Heart the flush of passion On your cheek unconscious, With her sighs shall deepen.
All the long sweet night-time, Sleepless while you slumber, She shall lie and quiver With her love's mad longing.
GYRINNO
Now the silver crescent Of the moon has vanished, With the golden Pleiads Drifting down the west.
It is after midnight And the time is passing, Hours we pledged to passion And I sleep alone.
Anger ill becomes thee, Tender-souled Gyrinno, Shapelier is Dica But less loved by me.
Art thou still relentless, Wilful one, annulling All thy protestations In the fervid past?
Can it, O Charites, Be thou hast forgotten?
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Dost thou love another, Even now, perchance?
Ah, my tears are falling, Yet in my despairing Mood I lie and listen For thy furtive step;
For the lightest rustle Of thy flowing garment, For thy sweet and panting Whisper at the door.
Now the moon has vanished With the golden Pleiads; It is after midnight And I sleep alone.
MEGARA
Thou burnest us, Megara, With thy passions wild; Bringing from Panormus Such unbridled fires.
Thou burnest us, a supple Flow of tortured flame, Raging, biting, searing, Lawless of the will.
Thou burnest us, Megara, Love must know reserve, Curbing power to keep it Keener for restraint.
ERINNA
Haughtier than thou, O fair Erinna, I have never met with any maiden.
Such a careless scorn as thine for passion Proves a dire affront to Aphrodite.
When with soft desire she wounds thy bosom, Thou shalt know love's pain and doubly suffer.
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Keep the gifts I gave thee, long rejected; Fabrics for thy lap from far Phocea,
Babylonian unguents, scented sandals, And the costly mitra for thy tresses;
Tripods worked in brass to flank the altar With the ivory figure of the Goddess;
Where the sacrificial fumes from sacred Flames shall rise to gladden and appease her,
In the hour when at her call thy fervid Breast and mouth to mine shall be relinquished.
GONGYLA
It was when the sunset Burned with saffron fire, And Apollo's coursers Turned below the hills,
That on Mitylene's Marble bridge we met, Gongyla, thou golden Maid of Colophon.
Like the breath of morning Or a breeze from sea, Fresh thy beauty smote me, Virile of the north.
Startled by thy vision, Transports half divine Flooded veins and bosom, Shook me with desire.
Soon the kinder sunglow Of Æolic lands Melted all the futile Snows about thy heart.
DAMOPHYLA
Cold of heart and strangely Uninclined to passion,
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Wisdom's vigil leaves thee, Proud Damophyla.
Sapphics thou hast written, Verses in my metre, With a skill surpassing In the melic art.
Love's superb enchantment Thou art fain to banish, Like the virgin Huntress Long by thee adored.
Molded by thy tunic, Every arching contour Of her chaste and noble Form I dream to see;
Even view her stepping From the leafy covert Down the dawn-white valley, Stately as a stag.
Long I sued but found thee Deaf to all entreaty, Till one summer twilight Listless in the heat;
Soothed by slumber's languor, And my low monodic Voice that hymned a paean In the praise of love;
Loth to yield yet vanquished, As I knelt beside thee, All thy long resistance To my kiss succumbed.
ANAGORA
Anagora, fairest Spoil of fateful battle, Babylonian temples Knew thy luring song.
Wrested from barbaric Captors for thy beauty, Thou wert made a priestess
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TELESIPPA GYRINNO MEGARA ERINNA GONGYLA DAMOPHYLA ANAGORA
PHAON
PHILOMEL GOLDEN PULSE THE SWALLOW TIDINGS HESPERUS DAWN THE FAREWELL DARK-EYED SLEEP THE CLIFF OF LEUCAS
EPIGRAMS
THE DUST OF TIMAS THE PRIESTESS OF ARTEMIS PELAGON
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