“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 rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.”
No. 11, st. 1. <br class="br"> More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
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The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
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