99, Upon the strings

SAPPHO

(Lobel-Page 99 – Σαπφώ – English translation)

NOTE: See 155, Polyanax's daughter.


] among the palm branches [

] child of Polyanax [

] the Sameans [


Upon the strings to pluck in

Glissandos, welcoming the seat-filling

By these ones: so fond they are of the sound


Of a lyre that trills gently,

Good-sounding, echoing through the bone –

Down the marrow, then – thence and inwards would run.