MDMD (10) Sappho 2

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MDMD (10) Sappho 2

Fragments and Links

"Abendstern - bringst alles heim, was der strahlende Morgen zerstreute -
bringst das Schaf, bringst die Ziege - bringst zurück zur Mutter die
Tochter."
http://www.venus-transit.de/text/MasonDixon.html

Fr. 95
Evening, thou that bringest all that bright morning scattered; thou bringest
the sheep, the goat, the child back to her mother.
H. T. Wharton

Thus imitated by Byron:--
O Hesperus, thou bringest all good things--
        Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer,
To the young bird the parent's brooding wings,
        The welcome stall to the o'erlaboured steer;
Whate'er of peace about our hearthstone clings,
        Whate'er our household gods protect of dear,
Are gathered round us by thy look of rest;
Thou bring'st the child too to its mother's breast.
Byron's Don Juan, iii. 107.

And by Tennyson:--
The ancient poetess singeth, that Hesperus all things bringeth,
Smoothing the wearied mind: bring me my love, Rosalind.
Thou comest morning or even; she cometh not morning or evening.
False-eyed Hesper, unkind, where is my sweet Rosalind?
Leonine Elegiacs, 1830-1884.

Hesperus brings all things back
Which the daylight made us lack,
Brings the sheep and goats to rest,
Brings the baby to the breast.
Edwin Arnold, 1869

Hesper, thou bringest back again
        All that the gaudy daybeams part,
The sheep, the goat, back to their pen,
        The child home to his mother's heart.
Frederick Tennyson, 1890.

Evening, all things thou bringest
        Which dawn spread apart from each other;
The lamb and the kid thou bringest,
        Thou bringest the boy to his mother.
J. A. Symonds, 1883.

Hesper, whom the poet call'd the Bringer
        home of all good things.
Tennyson,
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, 1886
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/sappho/sape08.htm#fr095
from:
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/sappho/index.htm -- mega site

http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/sappho.html
Some biography

http://www.lesbian.org/sappho-project/
Who was Sappho

http://cac.psu.edu/~ltv100/Classics/Poetry/sappho.html
Some poems

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~awiesner/bookimg14.html
Sappho reading -- a picture

Otto