The Poems of Sappho

An Interpretative Rendition into English

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Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson
This is a collection of the poetry of Sappho, in a "rather creative translation" by American poet John Myers O'Hara. - Summary by Carolin

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Sapphics 23:24 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Epithalamia - Threnodes 10:00 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Partheneia - Didaktika 9:31 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Erotika - Dithyrambs 18:45 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Girl Friends 13:35 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Phaon 8:44 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Epigrams 2:19 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)

Critiques


I like it, because i'm Lesbian. There's not much to say from me


Beautifully read and sung. I appreciate these pieces even more now.


Beautifully read and performed. Thank you.