“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Frag. 72
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
— Sappho
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 72
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