Thursday, July 19, 2007

 

Alone

Sappho, fragment 168b Voigt (tr. Kenneth Rexroth):
The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is
Midnight. Time passes.
I sleep alone.

δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ' ἔρχετ' ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.



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