1.
Pain
drains
me
to
the
last
drop.
Pain penetrates me
Drop by drop!
... 1. Mere Air Sung Text
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Text Authorship:
- by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958), "Sappho, fragment 37", loose translation/interpretation
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]Mere air, my words' fare, but intoxicating to hear. You ignite me!
Text Authorship:
- by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958), loose translation/interpretation
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE) [text unavailable]
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Note: a Sapphic inscription on a long-stemmed cup in an Athens museum.
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Language: English
Stars ringing the lovely moon pale to insignificance when she illuminates the earth with her magnificence.
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- by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958) [an adaptation]
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I sip the cup of costly death; I lose my color; I catch my breath whenever I contemplate your presence, or absence.
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- by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958) [an adaptation]
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]... ... My brain is wild, my breath comes quick-- The blood is listening in my frame, And thronging shadows, fast and thick, Fall on my overflowing eyes; My heart is quivering like a flame; As morning dew, that in the sunbeam dies, I am dissolved in these consuming ecstasies.
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To Constantia", subtitle: "Singing"
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Note for stanza 3: refers to Sappho's third fragment.
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I don't know what to do:
My mind is divided,
Split in two.
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- by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958), "Sappho, fragment 51", loose translation/interpretation [an adaptation]
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]Beautiful swift sparrows rising on whirring wings flee the dark earth for sun-bright air...
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- by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958), "Sappho, fragment 1", loose translation/interpretation [an adaptation]
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]Total word count: 141