Fragments 108, 110, 115, 117, 116, 111, 114, and 113 combined.
This is the lamentation-song
For Adonis - woe for Adonis, woe!
Thus wailed Aphrodite in anguish-throe,
As she strove to hold him back from death:
'Let thine heart not faint, O love! Be strong!
O me, it burns me, thy failing breath!
It kindles through all my being a fire!
My heart is aflame with despairing desire!'
She calls to her Eros of golden wing,
She bids him steep in the ice-cold spring
Fine linen, and lay on Adonis' brow: -
'O love, let its coolness revive thee now! . . .
Vain, vain! - his eyes see me no more;
They are fixed in a gaze upon Hades' door!
They close - he sleeps - not the sleep of the dead!
Hush, stir not a pebble with heedless tread!
No, no! this is death! Now remaineth to me
No sweetness on earth - nor honey nor bee!'
The Death Of Adonis
Sappho
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Poem topics: breath, fire, sleep, song, spring, wing, desire, earth, strong, honey, door, cold, ice, hold, gaze, golden, aphrodite, anguish, thine, revive, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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