I recieved from the Library today, If Not Winter, Fragments Sappho: by Anne Carson Its just achingly beautifal verse. Anne has obviously attempted to present on the printed page, the words in a manner as true to the original as possible, because Sappho obviously used the way words where arranged on a page as poetically as she did the words themselves.
Because we have only fragments I will mark the end of a fragment with a Horizontal Rule. a ] bracket indicates a missing line. I will refrain from further comment here, and just leave you to marvel at the beauty. Ama tu ANKI, BB.
And I on a soft pillow
Will lay down my Limbs
- Sappho -
Eros shook my
mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees
You burn me
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms.
pure Graces with arms like roses
Come here daughters of Zeus.
not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this
Ama tu ANKI, BB.