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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STILLNESS, by MARGARET COMBS PINNEY
First Line: By sappho's sea the lesbian hil
Last Line: Hush thou to mountain stillness, love.
Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Wellesley College
First Line: By sappho's sea the lesbian hil
Last Line: Hush thou to mountain stillness, love.
Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Wellesley College
BY Sappho's sea the Lesbian hill
Is brown and still;
The shadows linger on the grass
To see her pass -- she will not pass.
Her body and her speech are gone
To Acheron;
Brief beauty, vivid joy and tears
Forgotten twice a thousand years.
Blue ocean and brown changeless hill
Here still.
How swiftly all things die that move, --
Hush thou to mountain stillness, Love.
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