Sappho 2 fragments

Back from a long summer weekend with a couple of wonderful poem fragments by Sappho:

Percussion, salt and honey,
A quivering in the thighs;
He shakes me all over again,
Eros who cannot be thrown,
Who stalks on all fours
Like a beast.

Eros makes me shiver again
Strengthless in the knees,
Eros gall and honey,
Snake-sly, invincible.

Translations by Guy Davenport.

Posted on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:16 AM