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Sappho: Fragment 58 (pre-2004)

Sappho: Fragment 58 (pre-2004)

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]running away

]bitten

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]you

]makes a way with the mouth

]beautiful gifts children

]songdelighting clear sounding lyre

]all my skin old age already

hair turned white after black

]knees do not carry

]like fawns

]but what could I do?

]not possible to become

]Dawn with arms of roses

]bringing to the ends of the earth

]yet seized

]wife

]imagines

]might bestow

But I love delicacy and this to me—

the brilliance and beauty of the sun—desire has allotted.


Translation by Carson


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