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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508084" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sappho - A Monodrama</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Argument.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be<br>a remedy for hopeless love, if the self-devoted victim escaped with<br>life. Artemisia lost her life in the dangerous experiment: and Sappho is<br>said thus to have perished, in attempting to cure her passion for Phaon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>SAPPHO</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Scene the promontory of Leucadia.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the spot:--'tis here Tradition says<br>That hopeless Love from this high towering rock<br>Leaps headlong to Oblivion or to Death.<br>Oh 'tis a giddy height! my dizzy head<br>Swims at the precipice--'tis death to fall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lie still, thou coward heart! this is no time<br>To shake with thy strong throbs the frame convuls'd.<br>To die,--to be at rest--oh pleasant thought!<br>Perchance to leap and live; the soul all still,<br>And the wild tempest of the passions husht<br>In one deep calm; the heart, no more diseas'd<br>By the quick ague fits of hope and fear,<br>Quietly cold!<br> Presiding Powers look down!<br>In vain to you I pour'd my earnest prayers,<br>In vain I sung your praises: chiefly thou<br>VENUS! ungrateful Goddess, whom my lyre<br>Hymn'd with such full devotion! Lesbian groves,<br>Witness how often at the languid hour<br>Of summer twilight, to the melting song<br>Ye gave your choral echoes! Grecian Maids<br>Who hear with downcast look and flushing cheek<br>That lay of love bear witness! and ye Youths,<br>Who hang enraptur'd on the empassion'd strain<br>Gazing with eloquent eye, even till the heart<br>Sinks in the deep delirium! and ye too<br>Shall witness, unborn Ages! to that song<br>Of warmest zeal; ah witness ye, how hard,<br>Her fate who hymn'd the votive hymn in vain!<br>Ungrateful Goddess! I have hung my lute<br>In yonder holy pile: my hand no more<br>Shall wake the melodies that fail'd to move<br>The heart of Phaon--yet when Rumour tells<br>How from Leucadia Sappho hurl'd her down<br>A self-devoted victim--he may melt<br>Too late in pity, obstinate to love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh haunt his midnight dreams, black NEMESIS!<br>Whom, self-conceiving in the inmost depths<br>Of CHAOS, blackest NIGHT long-labouring bore,<br>When the stern DESTINIES, her elder brood.<br>And shapeless DEATH, from that more monstrous birth<br>Leapt shuddering! haunt his slumbers, Nemesis,<br>Scorch with the fires of Phlegethon his heart,<br>Till helpless, hopeless, heaven-abandon'd wretch<br>He too shall seek beneath the unfathom'd deep<br>To hide him from thy fury.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  How the sea<br>Far distant glitters as the sun-beams smile,<br>And gayly wanton o'er its heaving breast<br>Phoebus shines forth, nor wears one cloud to mourn<br>His votary's sorrows! God of Day shine on--<br>By Man despis'd, forsaken by the Gods,<br>I supplicate no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  How many a day,<br>O pleasant Lesbos! in thy secret streams<br>Delighted have I plung'd, from the hot sun<br>Screen'd by the o'er-arching groves delightful shade,<br>And pillowed on the waters: now the waves<br>Shall chill me to repose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  Tremendous height!<br>Scarce to the brink will these rebellious limbs<br>Support me. Hark! how the rude deep below<br>Roars round the rugged base, as if it called<br>Its long-reluctant victim! I will come.<br>One leap, and all is over! The deep rest<br>Of Death, or tranquil Apathy's dead calm<br>Welcome alike to me. Away vain fears!<br>Phaon is cold, and why should Sappho live?<br>Phaon is cold, or with some fairer one--<br>Thought worse than death!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(She throws herself from the precipice.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</a><div class=q>
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