CLST 2101 Chapter : CLST 2101 Unit 2 Archaic Greece Readings
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Sappho: click here for the latest discoveries of sappho"s poetry. revised from the translations by anne carson (2002). fragment 1. Deathless aphrodite of the spangled mind, child of zeus, who twists lures, i beg you, do not break with hard pains, and what i want to happen most of all in my crazy heart. O lady, my heart but come here, if ever before you caught my voice far off and, listening, left your father"s golden house and came, yoking your car. And fine birds brought you, quick sparrows over the black earth whipping their wings down the sky through midair they arrived. But you, o blessed one, smiled in your deathless face and asked what (now again) i have suffered and why (now again) i am calling out fragment 31. For if she flees, soon she will pursue. If she refuses gifts, rather she will give them. If she does not love, soon she will love.
