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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: APHRODITE Matches Found: 660 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ( ON A LADY INDIFFERENT TO POETRY), by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You though! Die and you'll lie dumb in the dirt; nobody care, and none Last Line: Not worth anyone's glance, lost in the vague colorless drifting dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical (HER) SHIRT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Carpet %p Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A COOL RETREAT, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boughs with apples laden around me whisper; Last Line: Stealeth upon me. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical A GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a child; so fair Last Line: Nor lands men long to see. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Girls; Love; Mythology - Classical ABLUTION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ABOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Endurance %man %all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ADONIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods did love adonis, and for this Last Line: "and wrote his 'fecit' on thy work of truth." Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical ADONIS AND APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the wound death spreads into the delicate limbs Last Line: And cry, and tear the fine threads underneath Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir Last Line: Their mortal lechery in dispassionate hell Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone AEOLIAN ODE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In ancient crete around love's altar where the delicate Last Line: Of soft footsteps kept time in the choral dance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AGALLIDE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Equal to a god he seems who Last Line: It is this we must bear, %for so ... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AGE AND LIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is success for your tongue, my children Last Line: Are for me the same as desire for the sun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AGE WITHERS NOW MY FLESH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To a passion for sunlight Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AIL A LIVELY SUMMER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Said in %aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AIR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ivory %cl(asp Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALKAIOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Speak out whatever is fitting and right Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the other Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL COLORS TANGLED TOGETHER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL NIGHT LONG THE GIRLS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Than the trilling nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL THAT'S (LOVED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And to men ( %larger Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL TOO OFTEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For them Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL YELLOW GOLD AND LIKE A DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Would I leave her Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon and pleiades Last Line: I lie in bed, alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon, the pleiads disappear Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALREADY OLD AGE IS WRINKLING MY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Women AN ABSENT FRIEND, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious goddess in her eyes / were you, her comrade, and your songs Last Line: And in her heart sick longing grows. Subject(s): Absence; Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Separation; Isolation AN HYMN TO VENUS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O venus, beauty of the skies Last Line: And give me all my heart desires. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Handsome horses o shiver and admire Last Line: Than the long battle line of lydia's charioteers, %round shields and helmets Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND APHRODITE SAID, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sappho, you and my attendant eros' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND I GO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Harmony %the dance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND I YEARN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I hunt Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND LET HER FIND YOU, KYPRIAN, BITTERER STILL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A second time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND NIGHT'S BLACK SLEEP UPON THE EYES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND NOW I SHALL SING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To delight my friends Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND ONE FOR HIS MISTRESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aphrodite, cyprian, let her find you Last Line: He is dying, cytherea, adonis the delicate. What shall we do? %'beat your breasts, girls, and tear y Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND SINCE YOU ARE MY FRIEND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For I can't bear to keep house together %being the elder Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND THEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Than the svelte gyrinno Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND THERE, WHEN THEY HAD STIRRED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Come to our new kinsman Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND THIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the responsibility ( %nor many Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND YOU, DIKA, BIND LOVELY GARLANDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Aside from those who go ungarlanded Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND YOU, MY DIKA, CROWN YOUR LOVELY LOCKS WITH GARLANDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With flowers, and turn away from the ungarlanded Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND YOUR BOY'S BEAUTY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Have the balance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ANDROMACHE'S WEDDING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hector and his men bring the girl, her eyes gleaming Last Line: Singing for hector and for andromache divine. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANNIE, APHRODITE, AND THE ELEVATOR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie was some years older, so I trusted Last Line: Stared at me, smiled, and shook her shining head Subject(s): Aphrodite; Elevators; Mythology - Classical; Relationships ANOINTING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bedroom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ANOTHER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you Last Line: I think that someone will remember us in another time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ANOTHER TO THE SAME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you Last Line: Of hades, too, you'll wander, flittering after faded corpses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical APHRODITA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Seafoam Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical APHRODITA DRESSED IN AN EMBROIDERY OF FLOWERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Throughout the seige Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean APHRODITE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not unremembering we pass our exile Last Line: One fiery visitation of the love the gods desire in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical APHRODITE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spring-time eve illumined wide Last Line: On those adoring there. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical APHRODITE ADIPOSA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady blessington!' cried the glad usher aloud Last Line: A grace after dinner!—a venus grown fat. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women APHRODITE AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER, by COUNT CARL SNOILSKY Poem Source First Line: Here is this glowing hall of treasures Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical APHRODITE OF THE FLOWERS AT KNOSSOS COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN'S MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave crete and come to this holy temple Last Line: And mingle our celebration wit sud- %den joy Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite Of The Flowers, At Knosso Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature APHRODITE'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The murmured awe Last Line: Whom I called father once. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Temples APPLE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fruit-gatherers Last Line: Too high to pick Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ARBOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He seems to be a god, that man Last Line: From the narrow between Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ARKHEANASSA AND GORGO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall be known as Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AROUND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Clouds Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS A HYACINTH IN THE MOUNTAINS THAT MEN SHEPHERDING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tread underfoot, and to the ground its flower, all purple Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS A POET OF LESBOS SURPASSES FOREIGNERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS A SWEET APPLE REDDENS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They couldn't reach it Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS GOOD NATURED AS A LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I don't snap and pout and rage Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS IT HAPPENS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But you know well Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS ONCE IN CRETE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In that antique time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS THE STARS SURROUNDING THE LOVELY MOON WILL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the whole earth Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ASLEEP AGAINST THE BREASTS OF A FRIEND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AT NOONTIME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the earth is Last Line: The cricket sets %up a high-pitched %singing in his wings Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night AT THE TEMPLE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who comes in flowers. The uncrowned they turn away Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AWED BY HER SPLENDOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When she %is roundest and lights %earth with her silver Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night BARBITOS, BAROMOS, BARMOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BE KIND TO ME, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gongyla, I ask only Last Line: Come soon Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTIFUL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For day is nigh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY (1), by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough Last Line: Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now. Variant Title(s): One Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 1;a Young Bride (1) Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY (2), by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the wild hyacinth flower, which on the hills is found Last Line: Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground. Variant Title(s): A Young Bride (2);one Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 2 Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY IS BEAUTY ONLY WHILE YOU GAZE ON IT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But one who's good will soon be beautiful as well Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY IS FOR THE EYES AND FADES IN A WHILE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But goodness is a beauty that lasts forever Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BECAME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For no Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEFORE MY LYING HEART COULD SPEAK FOR LIFE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No sacred grove Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEFOREHAND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Kran(n)iades %girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BELOVED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Him I hold as happy as god in heaven Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BLACK DREAMS OF SUCH VIRULENCE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I %this Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BLAST OF LOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a mountain whirlwind Last Line: Punishing the oak trees, %love shattered my heart Variant Title(s): Like A Mountain Whirlwin Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDE WITH BEAUTIFUL FEET, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What can %sappho Last Line: Stiffly %pliant? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, EXULT! JUST AS YOU PRAYED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Aphrodita has honored you above all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, FOR YOUR TIRESOME BACHELOR FRIENDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, YOU ARE BLESSED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Aphrodite honors you exceedingly Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIGHTNESS AND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Desperation, %land Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT ATTIS, TO YOU THE THOUGHT OF ME GROWS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hateful, and you fly off to andromeda Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE WITH A RESENTFUL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Temperament: I have a quiet heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT INTRICATE SANDALS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Covered up her feet, a delightful piece of %lydian work Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT STAND BEFORE ME, IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And spread the grace that's in your eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CALLED YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Eros has given me, beauty and the light of the sun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CAME HUSBAND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: )ing bri(ght Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CERTAINLY NOW THEY'VE HAD QUITE ENOUGH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of gorgo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CHILDREN'S SONG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood, childhood where have you gone? Last Line: Never come back. %never Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CHILL DAMPENS THEIR TEMPER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Their wings limp Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CHORUS, FR. THE CITY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aegina's foam is high and wild Last Line: Propitiate the woodland pan. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) CHTHO(NIC, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CLEAR KEEN SONG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CLOSE BESIDE ME NOW AS I PRAY APPEARING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As in the old days Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME DOWN FROM THE SKY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Share, in goblets laced with gold, %this potion that blends these ritual %delights Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME NOW, MY HOLY LYRE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Find your voice and speak to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME OUT OF CRETE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME TO ME FROM CRETE, DOWN FROM HEAVEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Pour it like fine wine Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME TO ME NOW, YOU DELICATE GRACES AND YOU FAIRTRESSED MUSES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME TO ME ONCE MORE, O YOUR MUSES, LEAVING GOLDEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME, HOLY TORTOISE SHELL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My lyre, and become a poem Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COMPANY OF HORSEMEN OR OF INFANTRY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Round shields and helmets Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CORONET OF CELERY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CRETAN WOMEN ONCE DANCED THIS WAY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Treading the tender flowers of grass Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CRYING ASIA! THAT FAMOUS PLACE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And things made of ivory Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CURLS ( ) PLACING THE LYRE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DANCERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon appeared in all her fullness Last Line: Crushing the soft flowering grass Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DANGER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DAUGHTER OF KINGS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hail! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DAWN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DAWN WITH SMALL GOLDEN FEET, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DEATHLESS APHRODITE OF DAZZLING THRONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Desires, accomplish for me, and do you yourself do battle with me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DECEMBER: OF APHRODITE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever the books may say, or the plausible Last Line: In the hazel gold of her eyes, the world is green Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical DELICATE ADONIS DIES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And rend your robes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DELICATE GIRL, IN THE OLD DAYS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I strayed from you, and now again Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DESIRE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me, when I lay aching Last Line: Under the tender place what yearns Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DESIRE HAS SHAKEN MY MIND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Roars through trees Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DO I REALLY STILL LONG FOR VIRGINITY?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DON'T STIR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The trash Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DON'T YOU REMEMBER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We, too, did such things in our youth Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The wandering Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DOUN GAES THE MUIN HERSEL, AN AA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nicht is nearin her mirkest hour %and yet mylane I lie Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations DOWN FROM THE BLUE SKY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His shirt of phoenician red Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DOWNWARD MY TEARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And a high wind blow him away Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DREAM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O dream on your black wings Last Line: Now may I have %all these things Variant Title(s): O Dream From The Blacknes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DRESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DUSK AND WESTERN STAR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hesperos, most beautiful %of stars Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EARTH WITH HER MANY GARLANDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is embroidered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EKTOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ENDLESS NIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set Last Line: Midnight. Time passes. %I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EPIPHANY ABOUT GONGYLA, HERMES, AND HADES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gongyla, is there no sign of you? No epiphany Last Line: With lotus, the dewy banks %of the river of hades Variant Title(s): An Epiphany About Gongyla, Hermes And Hade Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EPITHALAMIUM, SELS., by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy bridegroom, hesper brings Last Line: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song EROS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eros, shaking under my rib cage Last Line: My sweet, my bitter, unimaginable beast Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now in my %heart I %see clearly Last Line: Etched %by love Variant Title(s): Now In My / Heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS ARRIVED FROM HEAVEN WRAPPED IN A PURPLE MANTLE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS SEIZES AND SHAKES MY VERY SOUL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shaking ancient oaks Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS SHOOK ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Like wind exploding on mountain oak Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS THE LIMB-LOOSENER SHAKES ME AGAIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That sweet, bitter, impossible creature Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS WEAVER OF MYTHS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Eros bringer of pain Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS, CHILD OF GEA AND OURANOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS, WEAVER OF TALES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ETERNAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And be yourself my ally in the chase Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, hesper, bringest homeward all Last Line: The children to their mother's side. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Evening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hesper, thou bringest home all that radiant dawn has scattered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evening star, you are the one Last Line: And gather the wild. %back to the mother you bring her child Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hesperos, you bring home all the bright dawn scattered Last Line: Bring home the goat, bring the child home to her mother Variant Title(s): Hesperos, You Bring Home All The Bright Dawn Disperse Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING, YOU BRING BACK ALL THAT THE DAWN SACTTERS ABROAD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You bring back the goat, your bring to its mother the child Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENSONG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All things thou bringest, hesper, that the bright dawn did part Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FALLING DOWNWARD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE HARP, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: More golden than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE LYRE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: More golden than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FAREWELL, O BRIDE, FAREWELL O HONORED GROOM, FAREWELL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FEET OF THE DOORKEEPER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ten shoemakers worked to stitch them Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FESTIVAL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FIRST NEWS OF SPRINGTIME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The lovesong of the nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FLOWERS FOR THE GRACES, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weave garlands, maiden, from the strands Last Line: But turn aside from the ungarlanded. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical FOOL, DON'T TRY TO BEND A STUBBORN HEART, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR APHRODITA, THIS PURPLE HANDKERCHIEF, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: An honored gift from phokaia Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR EVEN THEN, WHEN YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The road to high olympos %( ) men Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor the bee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR MY MOTHER SAID, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the children of kleanax %horribly wasted Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR THE SAKE OF THE OLD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Voice ( ) %before Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR THEY SAY THAT LEDA ONCE FOUND A HYACINTH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Colored egg, all covered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR WHEN I SEE YOU OPPOSITE ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And to liken you to tawny-haired helen is not unseemly at all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR YOU WERE ONCE A CHILD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: There is no road Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR YOU, O BRIDEGROOM, THERE WAS NEVER ANOTHER GIRL LIKE THIS ONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FORD AT THE RIVER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOREVER DEAD, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death shall be death forever unto thee Last Line: Among the shadowy, averted dead. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical FORGOTTEN, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead shalt thou lie; and nought Last Line: No friendly shade thy shade shall company! Variant Title(s): Sapphic Fragment Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The FORSAKEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon's set, and pleiads Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FORTUNATE BRIDEGROOM, NOW THE MARRIAGE THAT YOU PRAYED FOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Aphrodite has honored you beyond all others Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAE THE AIOLIC O PSAPPHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caller rain frae abune Last Line: And sleep faas drappan doun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations FRAGMENT 105(A), by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You: an achilles' apple Last Line: Poised beyond their reach Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT 105(C), by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O my mountain hyacinth Last Line: A scarlet stain upon the earth Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 100, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And wrapped her well Last Line: With delicate linen Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 101, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson scented scarves Last Line: Expensive gifts Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 102, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I cannot strike my loom. I'm undone Last Line: By my love for a boy by delicate aphrodite Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 106, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Superior, as the lesbian bard to foreigners Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 107, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do I long still for my maidenhood? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 113, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For there never was another girl Last Line: O bridegroom, like this one Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 117, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye to the bride! Good-bye to the groom! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 118, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But come Last Line: Take voice Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 120, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For I am not spiteful Last Line: Of an innocent child Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 122, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate girl Last Line: Plucking buds Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 123, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In golden sandals dawn Last Line: Had just come to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 124, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You yourself, kalliope Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 125, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I myself wove garlands once Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 128, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now come, o delicate graces Last Line: And muses of lovely hair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 130, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love that looses my limbs shakes me again Last Line: The bittersweet, irresistible, creeping thing Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 131, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atthis, you've come to hate the thought of me Last Line: You go fluttering after andromeda now Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 133, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Andromeda makes a fair exchange Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 134, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I spoke with you Last Line: O kypros-born Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 135, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why, o irana Last Line: The swallow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 136, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Messenger of spring Last Line: The nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 142, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leto and niobe were best of friends Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 143, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Golden pulse bloomed upon the shore Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 144, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With more Last Line: Of gorgo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 145, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't move the pebble piles Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 146, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For me neither honey nor bee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 147, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone, I say Last Line: Will remember us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 151, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black sleep of the night Last Line: Cloaks my eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 152, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mingled with colors of every kind Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 158, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beware the vainly barking tongue Last Line: When rage spreads in the chest Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 159, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You and my servant love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 161, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Guard her, bridgegrooms Last Line: Kings of citadels Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 166, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say that leda once Last Line: An egg of hyacinthine %blue Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 167, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whiter far than an egg Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 168, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For adonis, woe Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 168C, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brindled the earth Last Line: Of many wreaths Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 192, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Goblets, gold-bossed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 29, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gorgo's necklace and robes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 32, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who brought me honor Last Line: With the gift of their works Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 33, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O aphrodite of the golden wreath Last Line: I wish that such luck were mine! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 35, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Either panormos or kypros or paphps Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 39, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An embroidered shoe Last Line: Covered her foot Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 40, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sacrifice to you Last Line: Of a white goat Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 41, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Toward you beautiful girls Last Line: My thought is unalterable Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 42, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of the doves grows chill Last Line: And they slacken their wings Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 44, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A herald came, idaios, the swift messenger Last Line: In their happiness exactly like the heavenly gods Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 46, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon luxurious cushions Last Line: I'll lay my limbs down Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 47, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love shook Last Line: Batters the oak Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 48, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You came, and I was mad for you Last Line: But you chilled my heart aflame with desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 51, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what to do Last Line: I'm of two minds Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 52, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't hope Last Line: With my two hands Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 53, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rosy-armed graces Last Line: Come here to us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 54, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love came from heaven Last Line: Clad in crimson cloak Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 91, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Irana, I've never come upon Last Line: Anyone more distainful than you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRIEND, YOU ARE GONE, BUT REMEMBER ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Honestly, I wish I were dead! Last Line: No sound, %no grove Variant Title(s): Honestly I Whish I Were Dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRIENDSHIP, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lay, sweet, %your head Last Line: You love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FROM SAPPHO, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou liest dead, -- lie on: of thee Last Line: Shall find in thee a lover lost. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The FULL MOON, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off in the twilight hung the low full moon Last Line: Trampling the tender bloom of the soft grass. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical FULL MOON, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Round the fair moon stars veil their heads Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FULL MOON APPEARED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All around the altar Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GARDEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There the cool water ripples Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GARDEN OF THE NYMPHS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cool waters tumble, singing as they go Last Line: My soul entrancing. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical GENTLE OF VOICE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With honey in her words Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GIRL PICKING A FLOWER JUST OPENED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GIRL WITH THE PLEASING VOICE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GIRLHOOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like %the wild- %flower Last Line: Its petalled %print Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GLOW AND BEAUTY OF THE STARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When in her roundness she burns silver %about the world Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GODDESS OF PERSUASION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Daughter of aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GODDESS, I SPOKE WITH YOU IN A DREAM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cyprus-born aphrodite Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GODS ( ) TEARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GOLDEN CHICKPEAS GREW ALONG THE SHORE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GOLDEN GOBLETS WITH KNUCKLEBONE STEMS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GONGLYA / I SAID, 'O LORD', by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of acheron %where the lotus grows Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GONGYLA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On the banks of acheron.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GRACES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You, at least Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GRACES O WITH WRISTS LIKE THE WILD ROSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Come among us, daughters of god Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GRANT, O / KYPRIS, AND NEREIDS TOO, THAT ALL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And may he wish to make his sisted endowed %with honor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GROWING OLD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Kalliope %feel Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAIL, BRIDE!, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Long life! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAND BAG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAUGHTIER THAN A HORSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: More than you do me? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE GLEAMS LIKE A GOD THAT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I appear little %by little in my loss to have died; %tested in every way since even ... %.......... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS ALMOST A GOD, A MAN BESIDE YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So poor I've nothing to lose, I must gamble Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS DYING, CYTHEREA, ADONIS THIS DELICATE. WHAT SHALL WE DO?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Beat your breasts, girls, and tear your clothes.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS DYING, KYTHEREA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tear your dresses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS MORE THAN A HERO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is a god in my eyes Last Line: Death isn't far from me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE SEEMS TO BE A GOD, THAT MAN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But endure, even this grief of love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE WHO IS FAIR IS FAIR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In time be also fair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HEART, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Caressed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HEKATE, THE SHINING GOLD ATTENDANT OF APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HER GIFTS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More music %than the harp Last Line: Than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HER SHOES WERE LEATHER AND FROM ASIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rich lydian patterns across the toes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HERE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Again Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HERE ARE FIND GIFTS, CHILDREN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet I love refinement, and beauty and light %are for me the same as desire for the sun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HERMES CAME TO ME IN A DREAM. I SAID, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To die, and to watch the dewy lotus %along the banks of acheron, river of hell Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HESPERUS THE BRINGER, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hesperus, thou bringest all good things Last Line: Thou bring'st the child too to its mother's breast. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical HIGH IN THE CHARIOT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Against all the outlanders Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HIM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Becomes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HONESTLY I'D AS SOON BE DEAD!, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No occasion, with us away, %no grove... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HONESTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO DIE.', by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not a grove or a dance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HOPE OF LOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All night long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HORSES IN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come out of crete Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine Subject(s): Animals; Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Horses; Love; Mythology - Classical HOST OF HORSEMEN, SOME SAY, IS THE LOVELIEST SIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Than lydian chariots battling in armament Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave crete for this holy temple Last Line: Immortal nectar in golden cups, %fill all with sudden ecstasy Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Star-throned incorruptible aphrodite Last Line: Have done, do thou; be thou for my thyself too %help in the battle Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the little girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I AM APHRODITA OF THE SHIFTING EYES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My servants are eros and you, my sappho Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I AM WILLING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I BID YOU, TAKE YOU LYRE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I made this prayer to her Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I COME FORWARD, TELL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DO NOT THINK THAT ANY GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Will be skilled as you in her heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DON'T EXPECT TO TOUCH THE SKY WITH MY TWO HANDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I HAVE TWO THOUGHTS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY I'M RUNNING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My mind is part this way, part that Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Long ago, when you were still %an ungainly little girl Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I GAVE YOU A WHITE GOAT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL: THE GOLDEN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: - for her, I wouldn't take all lydia or sweet Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE A LOVELY DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'd not take all of lydia %nor even enchanting Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE NEITHER THE HONEY NOR THE BEE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE NO EMBROIDERED HEADBAND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ribbon reminds me of those days %when our enemies were in exile Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE NOT ONE WORD FROM HER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No woodlot bloomed in spring without song Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT SELF-RESPECT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not stir up gossip with your tongue, insult %would not stream from your eyes-- %you might be talking Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of its beauty Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED THEE, ATTHIS, IN THE LONG AGO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED YOU ATHIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you athis, long ago Last Line: But you lost innocence, glow %and me, as you gained grace and guile Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Without any grace Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, LONG AGO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I MIGHT LEAD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I MISS YOU AND YEARN AFTER YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I PUT HERE, MY LAZY GIRL, THIS SOFT CUSHION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And if, with your blouse off, in your soft arms Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I THINK THAT SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US IN ANOTHER TIME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATIS, ONCE, LONG AGO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To me you seemed a little girl, and not too graceful Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WILL LET MY BODY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Flow like water over the gentle cushions Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WISH THE CHILD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Many a joy Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WISH TO GO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I'VE FOULED THE WEFT, THE WARP, AND THE SHUTTLE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And by the slender aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IDYLL 1. LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wail, wail, ah for adonis! He is lost to us, lovely Last Line: Thou must lament him again, and again shed tears in a new year. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cythera (greek Island); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness IF MY NIPPLES WERE TO DRIP MILK, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who wears the scent of violets %on her young breasts Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF ONLY THEY HAD WOVEN ME SUCH LUCK, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When my cloth was on the loom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF YOU CARE FOR ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That is in your eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF YOU CARE FOR ME, THEN WIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The elder in a llove affair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IMMORTAL APHRODITE, ON YOUR PATTERNED THORNE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to tell you something. Nevertheless, my shame Last Line: Come to me now, you delicate graces and you fairtressed muses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to tell you something, and yet my shame %prevents me...' Last Line: Eyes: you would state your case Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN MY EYES HE MATCHES THE GODS, THAT MAN WHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But all must be endured, since even a poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN MY SEASON I USED TO WEAVE LOVE GARLANDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN THE HOUSE OF THE MUSES' SERVANTS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Grief is not right. It would not suit us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical INSCRIPTION ON A WINE JUG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the temple where stone altars Last Line: Fit for her festivities Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IS FRAGRANT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ISLAND AIGA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IT IS NOT FITTING TO MOURN THE DEAD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let us have no mourning here Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IT WAS YOU, ATTHIS, WHO SAID, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But you forget everyhing Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR US. IT IS NOT RIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For mourning to enter a home of poetry Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical JEALOUSY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More happy than the gods is he Last Line: And, losing colour, sense, and breath, %I seem quite languishing in death Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical JUST NOW DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical JUST WHEN DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical KYPRIAN AND SEA-DAUGHTERS OF NEREOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That he be a delight to all who love him Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical KYPRIS, MAY SHE FIND YOU BITTER TOO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Coming again this second time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LADY DAWN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LATO AND NIOBA WERE VERY LOVING FRIENDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEAD OFF, MY LYRE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And we shall sing together Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEAVE YOUR SIEGE OF HER VIOLET SOFTNESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We shall stay awake and sing Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEAVING CRETE, COME VISIT AGAIN OUR TEMPLE., by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You know well - rejoicing our golden cups - your %headiest nectar... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEMON (LUMUNA), by STANLEY H. BARKAN Poem Source First Line: Pumaroro! Nespole! Lumuna!' Last Line: So sweetly nippled waiting for a kiss Subject(s): Aphrodite; Kisses; Lemons; Mythology - Classical LET ME WISH THE CHILD OF THE HOUSE OF POLYANAX, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A most good day Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LETTER TO ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the very gods in my sight is he who Last Line: Death has come near me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIBERA ME, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess the laughter-loving, aphrodite, befriend! Last Line: Having the first-fruits and flower of me, cast me the core. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical LIFT HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Like ares is he - %bigger far than a man Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIFT HIGH THE ROOFBEAM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Greater for than a mortal man Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIKE A CHILD TO HER MOTHER I HAVE FLOWN TO YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIKE THE SUCCULENT APPLE THAT BLUSHES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The applepickers have forgotten-- %not completely - it was %impossible to reach Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIKE THE SWEET APPLE THAT REDDENS OF THE TOPMOST BOUGH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Underfoot, and on the ground the purple blossom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LITTLE GIRLS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of leaves Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LONELINESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight, %and the small hours Last Line: I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOOM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Talk to me Last Line: Pricks me %with %desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOST FRIEND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atthis, our own loved anactoria Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOST HEART, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot, sweetest mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOST MAIDENHEAD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the hyacinth high on the mountains under the shepherds' tread Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love has unbound my limbs and set me shaking Last Line: A monster bitter-sweet and my unmaking. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind threshes the mountain oaks Last Line: The mastery that sweetly melts my limbs Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE - BITTERSWEET, IRREPRESSIBLE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet, atthis, you despise my being. %to chase andromeda, you leave me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE, LET THE WIND CRY ON THE DARK MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVING GIRLS MORE THAN GELLO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LUCKY BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 1, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set Last Line: And I lie here alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 2, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set Last Line: I sleep alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 3, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pleiades disappear Last Line: Sleepless, I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude MAID UNWED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the sweet apple reddens, high up against the sky Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAIDENHOOD, MAIDENHOOD, / WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Never afain shall I come %to you. Never again Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAIDENS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So that we may look on less sleep than does the %clearvoiced nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MARRIAGE OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crying asia! That famous place Last Line: Are like two of the gods together Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MARRIAGE OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cyprus %the herald came Last Line: Neither the honey %nor the bee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAY THE WINDS AND WORRIES BEAR OFF THE ONE WHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Blames me in my anguish Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAY YOU SLEEP, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a tender friend Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAY YOU SLEEP UPON YOUR GENTLE COMPANION'S BREAST, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ME AWAY FROM THEM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The guard corporal %wrestling Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MEDEIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MERMAIDS AND YOU BRINE-BORN ON THE KYPROS SAND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Put away the evil Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MIKA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dewfall upon the world Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MINGLED WITH COLORS OF EVERY KIND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MINNIE, I CANNA CAA MY WHEEL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Amang derk ghaists stravaigan sichtlesslie Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MISTRESS DAWN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MITYLENE ON RETURN FROM EXILE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We round machaera in in one eager sweep Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MNAISIDKIA, LOVELIER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the tender flesh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stars %that circle Last Line: At the full Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON APPEARED IN ALL HER FULLNESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And so the women stood around the altar Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS DRIFTED OFF, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the pleiades. In the middle %of night, hour slides into hour. %I drift alone asleep Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS GONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS SET, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Time passes, time passes, and I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS SET, AND THE PLEIADES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Alone in my bed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HATH LEFT THE SKY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But on my couch alone I lie Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MORE HARMONIOUS THAN LYRES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MORE SWEETLY TUNED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And more golden %than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion MOTHER, I CANNOT MIND MY WHEEL, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mother, let the weaving be Last Line: I long for my young love. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical MOTHER, I CANNOT WEAVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, sweet mother, I cannot weave Last Line: Slender aphrodite overpowered me with joy, %stole my heart to give to a boy Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MUSES, COME DOWN AGAIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving that golden Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY ATTHIS, ALTHOUGH OUR DEAR ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For the night's many tongues %carry her cry across the sea Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MOTHER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When she was young it was the style Last Line: Now she wears sleek hair coifed by an artist %from sardis where hairdressers are the smartest Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Colorful ribbons from sardis-- %but a garland of fresh flowers Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MOTHER USED TO SAY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Where shall I get one Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MUSE, WHAT AILS THIS ARDOUR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I should so rashly ripp up Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEAR ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Girls ( %around Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEIGHBORS OF THE GENTLE MOON STARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Appear in a fluster to disappear %whenever she rises fully revealed %bathing the earth in silver lig Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEVER YET, O IRANA, HAVE I FOUND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Anyone more vexing than you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEVER, IRANA, HAVE I MET ANYBODY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: More bothersome than you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is gone Last Line: Alone I lie. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lovers' nightingale Last Line: The clamorous angel of the spring Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NINIE, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Text First Line: Perfumes, flowers, love, dancing, music Last Line: P.S. Don quixote is an example. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dadaism; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Italians NOT EVEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Longing %pleased Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOT ONE GIRL, I THINK, WILL EVER LOOK ON THE SUNLIGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of another time who has such talent as this one does Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOTHING CAN TAKE ITS PLACE IN MY MIND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This beauty of girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOTICE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gods come %straightaway Last Line: To the tearless Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOW LETO AND NIOBE WERE VERY DEAR COMPANIONS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOW THAT ANDROMEDA HAS HER FAIR REPLY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Psappho, why aphrodita of so many pleasures? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOW TO DELIGHT MY WOMEN FRIENDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'll make a beautiful song of this affair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O ADONIS!, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O DREAM ON YOUR DARK WINGS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But may I have %them all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O HESPERUS! THOU BRINGEST ALL THINGS HOME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O POLLYANNA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Good-bye, good bye Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O SAPPHO, I LOVE YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And even in acheron you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O THERE ARE NO OTHERS LIKE HER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not in these times, lover Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O YOU ROSY-ARMED GRACES, HALLOWED DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS, BE HERE!, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OBLIVION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sans record %sans regret Last Line: In the house of dis Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OBSESSION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is equal Last Line: Panicked, I think %I'm about to die Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a god I reckon the man to be who Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO ANACTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Last Line: Caught by pains of menacing death, I falter %lost in the love-trance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO ANACTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That man seems to me peer of gods Last Line: But I must dare all, since one so poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from calm waters only has she sprung Last Line: The flaming storm may light her festival. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aphrodite, splendour-enthroned, undying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE (1), by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glittering-throned undying aphrodite Last Line: Have done, do for me queen, and let thyself too %be my great ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE (2), by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Splendor-throned queen, immortal aphrodite Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OF DORIKHA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To be half asleep with love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OF EROS, ANXIOUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To make it last all night long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OF THE MUSES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OH, MY SWEET MOTHER, 'TIS IN VAIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is now to flit with unknown ghosts in cold and nameless gloom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OLD AGE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of course I am downcast and tremble Last Line: Of her who is wandering Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OLD LOVE IS BEST, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all that the world holds, some deem the fairest Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ON YOUR DAZZLING THRONE, APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From fearful agony. Labor %for my mad heart, and be %my ally Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite: Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ON YOUR THRONE, A MARVEL OF ART, IMMORTAL., by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ONCE UPON A TIME, THE STORY GOES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leda found a hyacinthine egg Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ORCHARD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cool water among apple boughs Last Line: Sleep falling from quicksilver leaves Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OVER THE EYES NIGHT'S BLACK SLUMBER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PAIN PENETRATES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My drop Last Line: By drop Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pain PARALYSIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother darling, I can't work the loom Last Line: And broken me with desire for a boy Variant Title(s): Mother Darling, I Cannot Work The Loo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PARTHENIA, PARTHENIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nowhere near you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PARTING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truly I want to die Last Line: And royal ointment on my hair you shed.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Farewell; Love; Mythology - Classical; Parting PEER OF THE GODS IS THAT MAN, WHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Than dry grass and lack little %of dying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PEERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Gods %shameful Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who stalks on all fours %like a beast Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cupid; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Snake-sly, invincible Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PHRASE REMEMBERED BY ARISTIDES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Brightness that strikes the eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLACE THERE THE NATURE OF THE VIOLET BREASTED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLACES SUCCESS ON YOUR LIPS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Has made of the sun's brightness and beauty my fortune Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLEASE ABANTHIS, YOUR SAPPHO CALLS YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our lady of cyprus, %for praying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLEASE, MY GODDESS, GOLDENCROWNED APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let this very lot fall to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical POIKILOTHRON, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All-ador'd, all glorious aphrodita Last Line: Victory with me. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical PRAYER FOR CHARAXOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cypris and you nereids, bring my brother Last Line: To his sister, let him consent to do her %honor, just this once, and her cruel sorrow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PRAYER TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal aphrodite, zeus's daughter, throne Last Line: Goddess, do it. No one could resist if you were %fighting beside me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PRETTY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Artemis Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PURE AND HOLY GRACES AND MUSES WHO LIVE AT PIERIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical RAISE THE RIDGE-POLE HIGHER, HIGHER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And he can't get it through the door Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical REBUKE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore thou wouldst mingle with those and grieve me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical RETURN, GONGYLA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your lovely face. %when absent Last Line: Again: you whom of all women %I most desire Variant Title(s): O Gongyla, My Darling Ros Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ROSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweat Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ROSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If jove would give the leafy flowers Last Line: It blushes a diviner ray Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical ROUND ABOUT ME, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round about me hum the winds of autumn Last Line: Spreads as a river. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPHO'S ODE OUT OF LONGINUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gods are not more blest than he Last Line: I sigh, I tremble, and I dye Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHICS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids Last Line: Hearing, to hear them. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dreams; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sleep; Nightmares SAPPHO TO PHAON, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, lovely youth, that dost my heart command Last Line: And either cease to live, or cease to love! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO, I LOVED YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Andromeda %forgot, %and I too %blamed you Last Line: Even in hades %I am with you Variant Title(s): Andromeda / Forgot / And I To Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO, IF YOU DO NOT COME OUT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Among her daughters. Dearest atthis, %can you nog forget all those days? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO, WHY DO YOU SUMMON APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Andromeda certainly has her fair return Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO: A GARLAND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Artfully adorned aphrodite, deathless Last Line: Happen - make it happen. And stand beside me, %goddess, my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SARD(IS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall come Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SARDIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rises over the sea that spreads between us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SARDIS, / WHERE OFTEN SHE TURNS HER THOUGHT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Desire gnaws at her tender heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SCHOLAR ARISTIDES, PONDERING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall be remembered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEIZURE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To me that man equals a god Last Line: I must suffer everything, being poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEIZURE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To me he seems like a god Last Line: Yet I must suffer all things, %being poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEVEN FATHOMS LONG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That struggled %to cobble them Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEVEN WAYS IN TERROR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Her beauty %is Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHALL GIVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The mind %luck Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE CALLS HER DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE HAD OTHERS AT KYTHEREA TO NURSE HER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She writes these matters to andromeda Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE TAUGHT THE CHAMPION RUNNER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Hero of gyara Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE WAS LIKE THAT SWEETEST APPLE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: By shepherd men, its flower purple on the ground Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SILENCE IN DEATH, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When death shall close those eyes, imperious dame! Last Line: And snatch a bright eternity from fate. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical SILENCE IN DEATH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er the fates resume thy breath Last Line: While honour'd sappho's muse-embellish'd name %shall flourish in eternity of fame Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SILENT, STILL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Against me green %harsh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SINCE WHOMEVER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Injure me most of all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SLENDER GRACES AND MUSES WITH BEAUTIFUL HAIR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Come hither, come now Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SLICK WITH SLIME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And from ( %o girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SODA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOFTER THAN A FINE DRESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME PREFER A GLORY OF HORSEMEN; WARSHIPS., by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Far see these than chariots of the king, than %armor in mel ee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME SAY NOTHING ON EARTH EXCELS IN BEAUTY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The chariots of all lydia and all their %armoured fighting men Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME SAY THRONGING CAVALRY, SOME SAY FOOT SOLDIERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All the troops in lydia in their chariots and %glittering armor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME THERE ARE WHO SAY THAT THE FAIREST THING SEEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Eyes than lydia's chariots in all their glory %armored for battle Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOMEONE, I TELL YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet are always saved %by judgment of good men Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOMEONE, I'M BOLD TO SAY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In time hereafter Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOMETIMES SHE CLOSED HER EYES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All night long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SONG FOR THE GODDESS OF LOVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave crete, %aphrodite Last Line: Into our cups, %gold, and raised for the drinking Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical SONG OF THE ROSE, FR. ACHILLES TATIUS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If zeus chose us a king of the flowers in his mirth Last Line: As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Holidays; Love; Mythology - Classical; Trees SONNET 27, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Ye bright stars! That on the ebon fields Last Line: Ah! Who would wish to feel, or learn to love? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SPECIMEN OF SAPPHO'S POETRY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did jove a queen of flowers decree Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SPRING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On the banks of acheron Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SPRING'S MESSENGER, THE LOVELY VOICED NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STAND BESIDE ME, WORSHIPED HERA, STRANGE IN A DREAM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Virgins ( %around Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STAR OF EVENING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hesperus %you bring Last Line: Home the mothers' darling Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (planet) STARS AROUND THE LOVELY MOON, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the earth her radiant glow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STARS AROUND THE LUMINOUS MOON - HOW SOON THEY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Glamors the landscape... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Stars STARS AROUND THE MOON IN HER BEAUTY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From our sight Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STAYING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To say this Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SUPREME SIGHT ON THE BLACK EARTH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some say cavalry and others claim Last Line: The chariots in lydia and foot soldiers armored %in glittering bronze Variant Title(s): Some Say Cavalry And Others Clai Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SURELY ONCE YOU TOO WERE A DELICATE CHILD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For there is no pathway up great olympos %for humankind Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWALLOW, SWALLOW, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Why me, why me? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWEET MOTHER, I CAN'T WEAVE MY WEB, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because of slender aphrodite.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWEETPEAS FLOWERED GOLDEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All over the marsh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWEETVOICED GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TENDER GIRL PICKING FLOWERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TENDERER THAN THE ROSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THANK YOU, MY DEAR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: While you were gone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT LABOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Thus I pray %that %I long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT LABOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT MAN IS PEER OF THE GODS, WHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Paler than grass and lack little of dying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion THAT MAN SEEMS TO HER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT MAN SEEMS TO ME TO BE A GOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is, and I am, as far as I can see, %almost dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THE CLOUD, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud the far horizon scales Last Line: Over her satin shoulder slim. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Aphrodite; Clouds; Mythology; Mythology - Classical THE DUST OF TIMAS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This dust was timas; and they say Last Line: They cut them off with sharpened shears. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical THE MOON, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright stars, around the fair selene peering Last Line: Floods the world over. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical THE NEW APHRODITE, by WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the deep sea - stream Last Line: Daughter of god. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks THE NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dear good angel of the spring Last Line: The nightingale. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical THEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In gold sandals Last Line: Dawn like a thief %fell upon me Variant Title(s): In Gold Sandal Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night THEN I SAID TO THE ELEGANT LADIES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Now that you are leaving the city, %love's shapr pain encircles my heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEN LOVE SHOOK MY HEART LIKE THE WIND THAT FALLS ON, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oaks in the mountains Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For everything good for the groom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And made libations, praying all good things %for the groom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE ARE NONE LIKE HER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With an intelligence like hers Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE OUGHT NOT TO BE / THRENODIES IN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Be fitting for us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE'S A MAN, I REALLY BELIEVE, COMPARES WITH., by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Well, endure is all I can do, reduced to... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO SAY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In shame; you'd state your claim Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THESE ARE THE ASHES OF TIMAS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To lay on the grave Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THESE ARE TIMAS'S ASHES: ON THE THRESHOLD OF HER MARRIAGE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To the long locks of their lovely hair and laid them on this grave Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THESE PLEASURES NOW, MY CONSTANT GIRLS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall sing in splendid songs Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEY GAVE ME HONOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The gift of their skill Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEY HAVE HONORED ME WITH THE GIFT OF, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Their works Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEY WORE RED YARN TO BIND THEIR HAIR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: These memories. Know that our name is gone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THIS DUST WAS TIMAS'; ERE HER BRIDAL HOUR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cut with sharp steel their locks, the strewments for the dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THIS IS THE DUST OF TIMIAS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Their lovely hair with bright sharp bronze Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THOSE DISCORDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Will reach the sky Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THOUGH IT ISN'T EASY FOR US TO RIVAL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Goddesses in the loveliness of their figures Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THOUGH YOU ARE MY LOVER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I could not bear to be the older Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THREE LETTERS TO ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I set that man above the gods and heroes Last Line: The time is gone %I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THRONED IN SPLENDOUR, DEATHLESS, O APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Accomplish all those things my heart desires to be done; appear %and stand at my shoulder Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THROWS PEACE INTO TURMOIL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For day is near Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TIL ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maik o the gods he seems to me Last Line: Greener nor gerss, in sic a dwalm %I kenna wha I am Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations TO A BRIDE, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest beyond earth's bliss, with heaven I deem him Last Line: Almost as dead. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A BRIDE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blest like the gods he seems to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A LADY WHO LAUGHED AT POETRY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have no time for poetry Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A RICH UNCULTURED WOMAN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead you shall lie, for ever, a name that none recall Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A ROSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou new-born rose, emerging from the dew Last Line: Love to mankind, and confidence in god. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aphrodite; Flowers; Love; Mankind; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Human Race TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Were you desiring good and fair Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights TO AN UNCULTIVATED WOMAN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever dead shalt thou lie under the earth; none shall remember thee Last Line: Wand'ring, flitting amidst shades without fame, unhonoured there as here Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ANDROMEDA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That country girl has witched your wishes Last Line: And she hasn't got the sense %to hitch her rags above her ankles Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne Last Line: Be thou to me. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aphrodite, daughter of zeus, undying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aphrodite, child of zeus Last Line: Let my soul stay untouched. %keep my spirit yours, uncrushed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE: 2, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the while %I prayed Last Line: Our night would last %twice as long Variant Title(s): All The While, Believe Me, I Praye Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ATTHIS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, atthis, once, long, long ago Last Line: You seemed to me a small, ungainly child. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Love - Age Differences; Mythology - Classical TO ATTHIS', by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atthis, far from me and dear mnasidika Last Line: I yearn to behold thy delicate soul %to satiate my desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO CYPRIAN APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summit of the %mountain descending Last Line: Nectar with the gladness of our festivities %and greet this libation Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO DIE IS ALL I REALLY WANT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No meadow ......... Dance %.............. And murmurings %............... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO DIE IS EVIL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Else they would die Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO GYRINNO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Go close to death %[but must suffer all, being poor] Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And feel my mind slip as I %go close to death Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion TO ME THE MUSES TRULY GAVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So let me now get used to life and death %I cannot, shall not be forgot Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Life Change Events; Love; Mythology - Classical TO PHOIBOS THE GOLDENHAIRED WHOM KOIOS' DAUGHTER BORE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And eros never approaches her Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO THE URANIAN APHRODITE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My days pass wreathed in dreams while time's dim room Last Line: Hope's rainbow gleamed through foam of troubled seas. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Fate; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical; Time; Destiny TO WHAT SHALL I BEST LIKEN YOU, DEAR BRIDEGROOM?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Most of all to a slender sapling I liken you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO WHAT, DEAR BRIDEGROOM, SHALL I COMPARE YOU?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To a tender sapling I can best compare you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO WHOSE EYES?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TONIGHT I'VE WATCHED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In bed alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of that girl gorgo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TOWARD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the arrows Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TOWARD YOU BEAUTIFUL GIRLS MY THOUGHTS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Never alter Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AS THE GREEKS DREAMED, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the loose hot sands at foot of the cliffs Last Line: With nature may either know or understand the other. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks TRENCH FOR WATERING THE GARDEN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TRULY I WISH I WERE DEAD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You quenched your desire %for tender Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical UNTIL ALL OF YOU ARE WILLING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VINES TRELLISED ON POLES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VIOLET BREASTED DAUGHTER OF KRONOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VIRGINITY, VIRGINITY, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AND LEFT ME?', by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Never again will I come to you, never again.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VISION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go so that %we can see Last Line: Which is %our fate Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WE SHALL GIVE, FATHER SAID, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WE WILL GIVE HER, HER FATHER SAYS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEAKER THAN WATER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEALTH WITHOUT EXCELLENCE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The best of blessedness Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEALTH WITHOUT MORAL SPLENDOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: There is no higher fortune Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEALTH WITHOUT VIRTUE IS NO HARMLESS NEIGHBOR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEDDING SONG: 1, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maidenhood, o maidenhood Last Line: Never again back to thee. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song; Epithalamium WEDDING SONG: 2, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bridegroom dear, to what shall I compare thee? Last Line: To a slim green rod best do I compare thee. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Slenderness; Wedding Song; Thinness; Epithalamium WET HANDKERCHIEF, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHAT COUNTRY GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How to make a dress %come down to her feet? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN ANGER SPREADS INSIDE YOU BREAST, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Keep watch against an idly barking tongue Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN DEATH HAS LAID YOU DOWN AMONG HIS OWN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Reticent still, with the blind dead, unknown Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN FURY RAGES IN THE BREAST, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Watch that reiterating tongue Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN NIGHTLONG SLUMBER CLOSES THEIR EYES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN SHE, THE ROUND MOON, ROSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They stood in a ring around her altar Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN SONGS FROM THE HEART, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN THE PIGEONS' SPIRITS GROW COLD THEY LET THEIR, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Wings droop at their sides Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN YOU LIE ON A SLAB STRETCHED OUT DEAD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Even in the corridors of underwood light no %one will notice you strut among the bloodless dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHERE DO THE BUTLER'S BIG FEET GO?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Besplendor those important feet Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHETHER CYPRUS KEEPS YOU OR PAPHOS OR PANORMOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHETHER YOU ARE AT KYPROS AND PAPHOS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or at panormos Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHILE THEY KEPT WATCH AROUND HER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lords of the town Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHITER BY FAR THAN AN EGG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHITER THAN MILK, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHO IS THIS WILD GIRL WITH THE CHARM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So that the hem is at the ankle Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHY, AFTER SO LONG, SHOULD I DREAM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of those girlish days? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHY, O IRANA, DOES PANDION'S DAUGHTER THE SWALLOW, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Wake me? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WISE IN MANY THINGS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH EYES LIKE THAT, STAND STILL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bold as friends before each other Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH QUICKENED HEART THEY HOVERED, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart grows chill Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH THAT ISLAND-BORN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And all in a dream Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH THE BRIDE THAT HAPPY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let the bridegroom rejoice Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH WHAT EYES?, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITHOUT GUILE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WORD WENT AROUND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Young beyond acheron Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WORLD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could not hope Last Line: To touch the sky %with my two arms Variant Title(s): I Could Not Hop Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WORMWOOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is humiliating Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WRAPPED UP IN RICH SHAGGY WOOL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YEARNING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wilt in your absence Last Line: As they stamp purple blossoms %into the green grass Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU CAME, AND I WAS MAD TO HAVE YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Your breath cooled my heart that was burning with desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU CAME. AND YOU DID WELL TO COME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Welcome, darling, be blessed three times %for all the hours of our separation Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HATE ME WHO LOVES YOU, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And flutter around andromeda Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HAVE BEGUN TO FORGET ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or do you love some other? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HAVE COME, AND DONE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That burned my heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or else you love some other person more than me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU LAY IN WAIT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And suddenly: beauty %of your garments Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU MAKE ME HOT, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU SHOWED UP. I WANTED YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who in a breath chilled me to the marrow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU TOO, KALLIOPA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yourself Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU WERE TO ME THEN A SHY LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU WHO SPURNED ME AND MY SONG, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, no thought of you from anyone Last Line: Unseen, and restless there, among the corpses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU WILL DIE AND NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOU, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In hades' house, and flutter about %among the dark, not illustrious dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOUNG BRIDE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the apple reddest-bright Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOUR DARLING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical |
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