About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Digital Sappho

See also Wie hernieder vom Berge Sturmwind stürzt.

Text Authorship:

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

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

[ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895) , no title ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
  • Go to the text.
    
• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) , no title ; composed by Goffredo Petrassi.
  • Go to the text.
    
• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
  • Go to the text.
    

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• 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

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