Awed by her splendor
stars near the lovely
moon cover their own
bright faces
when she
is roundest and lights
earth with her silver
stars near the lovely
moon cover their own
bright faces
when she
is roundest and lights
earth with her silver
Awed by her splendor
About the poet
Sappho
c. 600 BCE/GreekThe only contemporary source which refers to Sappho's life is her own body of poetry, and scholars are skeptical of biographical readings of it. Later biographical traditions, from which all more detailed accounts derive, have also been cast i…
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And their feet move
And their feet moverhythmically, as tender
He is more than a hero
He is more than a herohe is a god in my eyes--
Hymn To Aphrodite
Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee
Evening
Children astray to their mothers, and goats to the herd,Sheep to the shepherd, through twilight the wings of the bird,
Cleis
Sleep, darlingI have a small
