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Sappho · 7
Standardize on Henry Wharton (1885) or Edwin Marion Cox (1925) for PD; Mary Barnard / Anne Carson modern translations are post-1928 and rights-encumbered.
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Desire speaks in fragments: Sappho's lyric voices the body's longing as its own complete world.
erotic-as-power
He touched my heart, he laid me low — no arms can now protect me. Without why should I missiles throw? Within strife doth affect me.
FRAGM-RC-035Among Sappho's alleged female friends, the best established in common opinion, on account of several texts, is without question Atthis.
CAFRA-RC-060embodiment
Paint her cheeks and paint her nose, roses with white mingled; paint her glance like fiery flame, like Athena's brightly gleaming.
FRAGM-RC-036Dewy Aphrodite rising, first was born — roses sickness, death oppose; time is conquered by the rose.
FRAGM-RC-044desire
Love his dwelling e'er doth build right within my heart, and with young Loves it is filled, some whose wings just start.
FRAGM-RC-038The bow-strings more than golden wealth with love — pray, listen — charm me.
FRAGM-RC-045Illuminates
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