<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513399" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Anactoria, Who Has Forsaken A Once-Loved Girlfriend Of Sappho</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rushing war-hosts, horsemen or foot or galleys —<br>These doth one call, those doth another, fairest<br>Sights on earth: I say that my love of all is<br>Sweetest and rarest.<br>Hear the proof, which lightly, I wot, convinces: —<br>'Mid the comely, Helen would fain discover<br>One without peer, and of the goodly princes<br>Chose for her lover<br>Him who brought the glory of Troy to ruin!<br>Reckless all of parent and child, she lavished<br>On the alien love for her own undoing;<br>Troyward was ravished.<br>Anactoria — she who contemns the blessing<br>Near at hand, is like to a reed wind-shaken.<br>Such are you! — love held in secure possessing<br>You have forsaken.<br>Her whose footfall's music myself had rather<br>Hear, and see her face in its beauty beaming.<br>Than to gaze where horsemen and footmen gather<br>Panoply-gleaming.<br>What is best is set above man's attaining;<br>Yet, if Fortune smiled on us once, 'tis better<br>To recall with prayer and with upward-straining<br>Than to forget her.</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=513399" data-title="To Anactoria, Who Has Forsaken A Once-Loved Girlfriend Of Sappho de Sappho" data-description="Rushing war-hosts, horsemen or foot or galleys — These doth one call, those doth another, fairest Sights on earth: I say that my love of all is Sweetest and rarest. Hear the proof, which lightly, I wot, convinces: — 'Mid the comely, Helen woul..."></div> </div> </div>

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