25/07/2024
Genre: Poetry
Chapter: 7
Listen: 6
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