Fragments from Sappho in celebration of Beltaine...

[sabrinamari]

136

messenger of spring
nightingale with a voice of longing


138

stand to face me beloved
and open out the grace of your eyes


102

sweet mother I cannot work the loom
I am broken with longing for a boy by slender Aphrodite


"'If Not, Winter': Fragments of Sappho"
Anne Carson

Comments

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to see you're enjoying that book. Will we see you at Beltane, chez Evil Bunny?