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The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com


p. 85

HESPERUS

Hesperus shines
  Low on the eastern wave,
Off toward the Asian shore;

Over faint lines
  Whose grays and purples pave
Where seas night-calmed adore.

Fair vesper fire,
  Fairest of stars, the light
Benign of secret bliss

Star of desire,
  Bringing to me with night
Dreams and my Phaon's kiss.


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