Sappho of Eressos
by Roman copy of Greek original - 5th Century BC
Sculpture
Sappho (620 BC?) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Most of her poetry has been lost, though her reputation lives on through a few surviving fragments:
Dream
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.
Willis Barnstone translation
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