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SELECTED POEMS Sappho c. 630 BC–c. 570 BC

Sappho: Selected Poems

19 public-domain poems · 27 pages · free to read

A short collection of Sappho’s best-loved poems, laid out as a book you can flip through: cover, contents, one poem to a page, and a note about the poet at the end.

Turn pages with the arrows, arrow keys or a swipe. A− / A+ changes the text size; Esc closes the book.

Contents

  1. Hesperus, bringing together (open in book)
  2. In the grey olive-grove a small brown bird (open in book)
  3. In the apple boughs the coolness (open in book)
  4. Pale rose leaves have fallen (open in book)
  5. There is a medlar-tree (open in book)
  6. I behold Arcturus going westward (open in book)
  7. Softly the first step of twilight (open in book)
  8. Who was Atthis? men shall ask (open in book)
  9. Will not men remember us (open in book)
  10. I grow weary of the foreign cities (open in book)
  11. Others shall behold the sun (open in book)
  12. Will none say of Sappho (open in book)
  13. There is no more to say now thou art still (open in book)
  14. Softly the wind moves through the radiant morning (open in book)
  15. What the west wind whispers (open in book)
  16. The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough (open in book)
  17. Tell me what this life means (open in book)
  18. Soft was the wind in the beech-trees (open in book)
  19. When in the spring the swallows all return (open in book)

The poems in this collection are in the public domain. This is a reading edition, not a Pagine Original.

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