https://www.scribbld.com/users/manyminded/ The Moon's gone down - Scribbld surlybird@gmail.com Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:48:16 GMT LiveJournal / Scribbld manyminded personal https://www.scribbld.com/userpic/58414/10942 https://www.scribbld.com/users/manyminded/ 100 100 https://www.scribbld.com/users/manyminded/441.html Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:48:16 GMT surlybird@gmail.com https://www.scribbld.com/users/manyminded/441.html I have not had one word from her<br /><br />Frankly I wish I were dead<br />When she left, she wept<br /><br />a great deal; she said to me, "This parting must be<br />endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."<br /><br />I said, "Go, and be happy<br />but remember (you know<br />well) whom you leave shackled by love<br /><br />"If you forget me, think<br />of our gifts to Aphrodite<br />and all the loveliness that we shared<br /><br />"all the violet tiaras,<br />braided rosebuds, dill and<br />crocus twined around your young neck<br /><br />"myrrh poured on your head<br />and on soft mats girls with<br />all that they most wished for beside them<br /><br />"while no voices chanted<br />choruses without ours,<br />no woodlot bloomed in spring without song..."<br /><br />--Translated by Mary Barnard https://www.scribbld.com/users/manyminded/441.html public