Fragments 34, 77, 76, 61, 71, 48, 86, 83, 47, 129, and 32 combined. <br /> <br />This is my song of maidens dear to me. <br />Eranna, a slight girl I counted thee, <br />When first I looked upon thy form and face, <br />Slim as a reed, and all devoid of grace. <br />But stately stature, grace and beauty came <br />Unto thee with the years — O, dost not shame <br />For this, Eranna, that thy pride hath grown <br />Therewith? Alas for thee ! I have not known <br />One beauty ever of more scornful mien, <br />As though thou wert of all earth's daughters queen! <br />Mnasidica is comelier, perchance, <br />Than my Gyrinna — ah, but sweetly rings <br />Gyrinna's matchless voice ! In rapture-trance <br />I listen, listen, while Gyrinna sings. <br />Hero of Gyara is fleet of foot <br />As fawns, and as light-footed in the dance, <br />The dance taught by the measures of my lute. <br />Ever-impassioned Gorgo! — is it strange <br />That I grow weary of the change on change <br />Of thine adored ones? — of thy rhapsodies <br />O'er each new girlfriend, while the old love dies? <br />Joy to thee, daughter of a princely race, <br />For thy last dear one! Lie in her embrace — <br />Till shines a new star on thy raptured eyes! <br />Fonder of maids thou art, I trow, than she. <br />The ghost who nightly steal young girls, to be <br />In Hades of her woeful company. <br />This is my fair girl-garden: sweet they grow — <br />Rose, violet, asphodel and lily's snow; <br />And which the sweetest is, I do not know; <br />For rosy arms and starry eyes are there. <br />Honey-sweet voices and cheeks passing fair. <br />And these shall men, I ween, remember long; <br />For these shall bloom for ever in my song.<br /><br />Sappho<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sappho-to-her-girlfriends/
