Hesperos, you bring home all the bright dawn scattered, bring home the sheep bring home the goat, bring the child home to its mother.
Sappho Fragments
Song Cycle by Carol Barnett
5. Evening Star
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Willis Barnstone (b. 1927), appears in Sappho Poems: A New Version
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), "Ἔσπερε, πάντα φέρῃς"
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In: Sappho, Sappho Poems: A New Version, translated by Willis Barnstone, Green Integer Books, 1998
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 24