SapphoThese hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English. |
Contents
asked myself 5 And I said | 5 |
confess | 6 |
At noontime | 7 |
took my lyre and said 9 Although they | 8 |
That afternoon 11 We heard them chanting | 11 |
Its no | 12 |
People do gossip | 13 |
Peace reigned in heaven 15 When I saw Eros | 14 |
You are the herdsman of evening | 16 |
Sleep darling | 17 |
Although clumsy | 18 |
Tomorrow you had better | 19 |
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