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The Poems of Sappho

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Daughter of mine, so fair,
        With a form like a golden flower,
Wherefore thy pensive air
        And the dreams in the myrtle bower?

Clëis, beloved, thy eyes
        That are turned from my gaze, thy hand
That trembles so, I prize
        More than all the Lydian land;

More than the lovely hills
        With the Lesbian olive crowned;—
Tell me, darling, what ills
        In the gloom of thy thought are found?

Daughter of mine, come near
        And thy head on my knees recline;
Whisper and never fear,
        For the beat of thy heart is mine.

Sweet mother, I can turn
        With content to my loom no more;
My bosom throbs, I yearn
        For a youth that my eyes adore;

Lykas of Eresus,
        Whom I knew when a little child;
My heart by Love is thus
        With the sweetest of pain beguiled.
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"Clëis" appears on "The Poems of Sappho".

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