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Sappho

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“Come hither from Crete to this holy temple, where is your graceful grove of apple-trees, and altars smoking with frankincense. In it cool water sounds through apple-boughs; all the place is shadowed with roses, and from the quivering leaves sleep comes down. In it a meadow blossoms with spring flowers, where horses pasture, and there the breezes breathe sweetly....There, Cyprian, take chaplets and pour softly in gold cups nectar mingled with our feasting.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 2 Voigt (tr. C. M. Bowra, 1961)
“Look at him, just like a god, that man sitting across from you, whoever he is, listening to your close, sweet voice, your irresistible laughter And O yes, it sets my heart racing— one glance at you and I can't get any words out, my voice cracks, a thin flame runs under my skin, my eyes go blind, my ears ring, a cold sweat pours down my body, I tremble all over, turn paler than grass.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 31 Voigt (tr. Stanley Lombardo, 2002)
“The stars hide away their shining form around the lovely moon when in all her fullness she shines (over all) the earth.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 34 Voigt (tr. David A. Campbell, 1982)
“Eros has shaken my mind, wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 47 Voigt (tr. Stanley Lombardo, 2002)
“I loved you, Atthis, once, long, long ago... You seemed to me a small, ungainly child.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 49 Voigt (tr. C. M. Bowra, 1938)
“A handsome man guards his image a while; a good man will one day take on beauty.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 50 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“But thou shalt ever lie dead, nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or thereafter, for thou hast not of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander obscure even in the house of Hades, flitting among the shadowy dead.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 55 Voigt (tr. H. T. Wharton, 1887)
“Of course I am downcast and tremble with pity for my state when old age and wrinkles cover me,when Eros flies about and I pursue the glorious young. Pick up your lyreand sing to us of her who wears violets on her breasts. Sing especially of her who is wandering.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 58 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“O dream on your black wings you come when I am sleeping.Sweet is the god but still I am in agony and far from my strength.for I had hope (none now) to share something of the blessed gods,nor was I so foolish as to scorn pleasant toys.Now may I have all these things.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 63 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“Do thou, O Dica, set garlands upon thy lovely hair, weaving sprigs of dill with thy delicate hands; for those who wear fair blossoms may surely stand first, even in the presence of Goddesses who look without favour upon those who come ungarlanded.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 81 Voigt (tr. E. M. Cox, 1924)
“Truly, I wish I were dead. She was weeping when she left me, and said many things to me, and said this: "How much we have suffered, Sappho. Truly, I don't want to leave you.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 94 Voigt (tr. Stanley Lombardo, 2002)
“Sweet mother, I truly cannot weave my web; for I am o’erwhelmed through Aphrodite with love of a slender youth.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 102 Voigt (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1922)
“Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch, the topmost apple on the tip of the branch, and the pickers forgot it, well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 105a Voigt (tr. Stanley Lombardo, 2002)
“As the hyacinth which the shepherd tramples on the hill Lies upon the ground and lying bloometh purple still.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 105b Voigt (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1922)
“Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go? I am gone and never come back to you. I never return.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 114 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 130 Voigt (tr. H. T. Wharton, 1887)
“I have a fair daughter with a form like a golden flower, Cleïs the belovedest, above whom I [prize] nor all Lydia nor lovely [Lesbos].”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 132 Voigt (tr. H. T. Wharton, 1887)
“The lovely-voiced harbinger of Spring, the nightingale.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 136 Voigt (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1922)
“If you are my friend, stand up before me and scatter the grace that's in your eyes.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 138 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“Evening, thou that bringest all that bright morning scattered; thou bringest the sheep, the goat, the child back to her mother.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 140 Voigt (tr. H. T. Wharton, 1887)
“Neither honey nor bee for me.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 146 Voigt (tr. H. T. Wharton, 1887)
“When wrath runs rampage in your heart you must hold still that rambunctious tongue!”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 158 Voigt (tr. Suzy Q. Groden, 1966)
“The moon has set, And the Pleiades. Midnight. The hour has gone by. I sleep alone.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 168b Voigt (tr. Stanley Lombardo, 2002)
Also quoted by: Stanley Lombardo
“To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. ? (tr. Suzy Q. Groden, 1966)
“Philip Sidney, printed with The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (F1, 1593)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin Hood (1641) act 2, sc. 5”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“William Bowles, in Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions, collected by N. Tate (London: J. Hindmarsh, 1685) p. 85”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“John Addison, The Works of Anacreon, [with] the Odes, Fragments and Epigrams of Sappho (London: J. Watts, 1735)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ambrose Philips, Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, &c. with Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho (1748)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thomas Moore, Evenings in Greece (1826) p. 18”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Edwin Arnold, The Poets of Greece (London: Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin, 1869)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“D. G. Rossetti, Poems (1870; 2nd ed., 1881)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“J. A. Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets (1st series, 1873; 2nd series, 1876; revised 1883)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“H. T. Wharton, Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation, 2nd ed. (London: David Stott, 1887)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Frederick Tennyson, The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcaeus (1890) p. 91”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“W. G. Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (Cambridge UP, 1907) pp. 4–17”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rennell Rodd, Love, Worship and Death: Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology (London: Edward Arnold, 1919)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A. S. Way, Sappho, and the Vigil of Venus (London: Macmillan and Co, 1920)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A. E. Housman, Last Poems (1922) no. 24 · More Poems (1936) nos. 10 and 11”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“J. M. Edmonds, Lyra Graeca, vol. 1 (1922)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“E. M. Cox, The Poems of Sappho (London: Williams and Norgate, 1924)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“T. F. Higham, C. M. Bowra and W. S. Marris, The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938) nos. 140–157”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Douglas Young, A Braird o Thristles (1947) — into Scots”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Richmond Lattimore, Greek Lyrics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949; revised 1960)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“C. M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry: From Alcman to Simonides (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961) p. 197”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mary Barnard, Sappho: A New Translation (University of California Press, 1958)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Willis Barnstone, Sappho: Lyrics in the Original Greek with Translations (New York: Anchor, 1965; 2nd ed., New York UP)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suzy Q. Groden, The Poems of Sappho (Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1966)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric, vol. 1: Sappho and Alcaeus, LCL 142 (1982)”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source