Now Eros shakes my soul

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895)

Ἔρος δ' ἐτίναξέ μοι

Language: Aeolic Greek

Ἔρος δ' ἐτίναξέ μοι
φρένας, ὠς ἄνεμος κὰτ ὄρος δρύσιν ἐμπέτων.

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by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 47 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895) , no title ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
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Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) , no title ; composed by Goffredo Petrassi.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
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ENG English (Henry Thornton Wharton) , no title
ENG English (Mary Barnard) , "Without warning", appears in Sappho: A New Translation, no. 44, copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Ernest Falconnet) , no title
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Salvatore Quasimodo) , no title

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Now Eros shakes my soul

Language: English after the Aeolic Greek

[Now Eros]¹ shakes my soul,
a wind on the mountain falling on the oaks.

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• G. Bantock

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¹ Bantock: "Yea, Eros"

Text Authorship:

by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 47
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "The moon has set", from Sappho: Prelude and Nine Fragments, no. 5..

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This text was added to the website: 2015-11-05
Line count: 2
Word count: 15