sappho poems

Cards (42)

  • 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