sappho poems

• Loeb 1 - Aphrodite, goddess of the embroidered throne 


  • Kletic hymn, beckoning Aph from the "heavens"
  • Aph comforts directly “she will love you soon, even if she does not want to”
  • Only love can “release” Sappho “from this great distress”
  • Homeric imagery - “swift, beautiful sparrows" come to Sappho's aid
  • "Be my ally" “Come to me again” “Release me”
• Loeb 2 - Come to me, leave Crete behind

  • Attracts Aph to Lesbos with a peaceful catalogue + multisensory language
  • “Cold water sings” “whole place covered with the shadows of roses”
  • Koma - “sleep flows down from the trembling leaves”
  • Imperatives - "come to me"
• Loeb 15 - Cypris
• Loeb 16 - the most beautiful sight in the whole world
• Loeb 17 - Come, Queen Hera
• Loeb 22 - I call upon you, Abanthis
• Loeb 30 - May the maidens sing
• Loeb 31 - He is as blessed as a god
• Loeb 32 - Who gave their works
• Loeb 34 - Around the beautiful moon
• Loeb 39 - Embroidered sandals
• Loeb 47 - Love shook my soul
• Loeb 48 - You came, just what I was looking for
• Loeb 59 - I used to love you, Atthis
• Loeb 50 - A handsome man is only good to look at
• Loeb 51 - I do not know what I am going to do
• Loeb 52 - I do not think I can touch the sky with my hands
• Loeb 55 - When you die
• Loeb 57 - What farm girl
• Loeb 81 - Put garlands around your lovely hair, O Dika!
• Loeb 94 - Honestly, I want to die
• Loeb 95 - Gongyla
• Loeb 96 - Often she turned her thoughts here
• Loeb 98a - My mother said
• Loeb 102 - Sweet mother!
• Loeb 104a - Hesperus!
• Loeb 105a - Just like the sweet apple
• Loeb 105c - Just like the hyacinth
• Loeb 110 - The doorkeeper
• Loeb 111 - Raise the roof
• Loeb 112 - Lucky bridegroom
• Loeb 114 - Virginity
• Loeb 118 - Come my divine Lyre
• Loeb 121 - If you care about me
• Loeb 130 - Love which loosens the limbs
• Loeb 131 - Atthis, the thought of me
• Loeb 132 - I have a beautiful daughter
• Loeb 137 - I want to say something
• Loeb 146 - Neither the honey
• Loeb 148 - Wealth without virtue