Sappho

Poems of Sappho

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Casey Du� Hackney, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston

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From there translations of Sappho

Translation by Julia Dubnoff

Julia Dubnoff

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Sappho translations by Rexroth

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Greek translations by Rexroth

There a few Sappho poems translated here

Here are a few selections from Julia Dubnoffs translation

yoking your chariot of gold.
Then beautiful swift sparrows led you over the black earth
from the sky through the middle air,
whirling their wings into a blur
As a wind in the mountains
assaults an oak,
Love shook my breast.
And there was no dance,
no holy place
from which we were absent
That man to me seems equal to the gods,
the man who sits opposite you
and close by listens
to your sweet voice