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Sappho on Anniversary

630 BC–570 BC Greece

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Sweet mother, I truly cannot weave my web; for I am o’erwhelmed through Aphrodite with love of a slender youth.

Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.

For even if she flies she shall soon follow and if she rejects gifts, shall soon offer them and if she loves not shall soon love, however reluctant.

Love has unbound my limbs and set me shaking,
A monster bitter-sweet and my unmaking.

I loved you, Atthis, once, long, long ago...
You seemed to me a small, ungainly child.

Rennell Rodd, Love, Worship and Death: Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology (London: Edward Arnold, 1919)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sappho (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.