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A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation …
I want to say something but shame prevents me
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just
— If Not, Winter by Sappho (Page 279)
A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation …
Fragments of Sappho, by Anne Carson
105A as the sweetapple reddens on a high branch high on the highest branch and the apple pickers forgot--- no, not forgot: were unable to reach
105B like the hyacinth in the mountains that shepherd men with their feet trample down and in the ground the purple flower
— If Not, Winter by Sappho (Page 215)
