SAPPHO
(Lobel-Page 22 – Σαπφώ – English translation)
] hinder [
] works, the earth [no more
] fine countenance [
I bring forth]
] disagreeable [
if] not, winter [
] pain [
]
] I bid you sing of
Gongyla; Abanthis, taking up that [
Lyre, while to you once again desire [
Flutters all around
You, beauteous. For she in that dress herself you
Were thrilled to behold; I, too, would rejoice.
And for herself once blamed me – immaculate she
Of Cyprian birth –
When I pray [
This word [
I wish [
[