With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet

that loosener
of limbs, Love

reptile-like
strikes me down

(C) Sappho
03/20/2017


Best Poems of Sappho

• Ode To Aphrodite
• Like The Gods. . .
• You Know The Place: Then
• One Girl
• Must I Remind You, Clesis,
• My Garden
• On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis
• The Arbor
• Cyprian, In My Dream
• Song Of The Rose
• In Adoration
• The Moon
• Claà¯s
• Tell Everyone
• Sleep, Darling
• Love
• Without Warning
• The Death Of Adonis
• Orchard Song
• To Any Army Wife
• No Word