<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prayer to Our Lady of Paphos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dapple-throned Aphrodite,<br>eternal daughter of God,<br>snare-knitter! Don't, I beg you,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cow my heart with grief! Come,<br>as once when you heard my far-<br>off cry and, listening, stepped</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from your father's house to your<br>gold car, to yoke the pair whose<br>beautiful thick-feathered wings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">oaring down mid-air from heaven<br>carried you to light swiftly<br>on dark earth; then, blissful one,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">smiling your immortal smile<br>you asked, What ailed me now that<br>me call you again? What</div><div style="margin:10px 0">was it that my distracted<br>heart most wanted? ``Whom has<br>Persuasion to bring round now</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``to your love? Who, Sappho, is<br>unfair to you? For, let her<br>run, she will soon run after;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``if she won't accept gifts, she<br>will one day give them; and if<br>she won't love you --- she soon will</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``love, although unwillingly...''<br>If ever --- come now! Relieve<br>this intolerable pain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What my heart most hopes will<br>happen, make happen; you your-<br>self join forces on my side!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Sappho<br> tr. Barnard</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sappho">Sappho</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513378" data-title="Prayer to Our Lady of Paphos de Sappho" data-description="Dapple-throned Aphrodite, eternal daughter of God, snare-knitter! Don't, I beg you, cow my heart with grief! Come, as once when you heard my far- off cry and, listening, stepped from your father's house to your gold car, to yoke the pair whose b..."></div> </div> </div>

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