by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895)

καὶ ποθήω καὶ μάομαι
Language: Aeolic Greek 
Available translation(s): FRE
καὶ ποθήω καὶ μάομαι ...

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I yearn and seek
Language: English  after the Aeolic Greek 
I yearn and seek ...1

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1 Bantock here adds: "I know not what to do -/ And I flutter like a child after her mother" (possibly from another fragment)

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