This writer describes a woman who "lights up all earth with silver" and causes the stars to hide their faces in one poem, and, in another, claims to have "no embroidered headband from Sardis" to give to a girl "like a golden flower," instead recommending "a purple ribbon looped in the hai," Notably translated by H.T. Wharton and Mary Barnard, this poet of "The stars about the fair moon" becomes "paler than grass" and "in madness, little better than one dead" after lamenting, (*) "
This writer describes a woman who "lights up all earth with silver" and causes the stars to hide their faces in one poem, and, in another, claims to have "no embroidered headband from Sardis" to give to a girl "like a golden flower," instead recommending "a purple ribbon looped in the hai," Notably translated by H.T. Wharton and Mary Barnard, this poet of "The stars about the fair moon" becomes "paler than grass" and "in madness, little better than one dead" after lamenting, (*) "Peer of gods he seemeth me." Obsessed with love, this poet pleads, "Release me from cruel cares" to an immortal "weaver of wiles" who sits on a "broidered throne." The poet's daughter Cleis and the goddess Aphrodite inspired poems by, for 10 points, which Aeolic poet and leader of a thiasos, an alleged lover of Phaon who lived on Lesbos?
This writer describes a woman who "lights up all earth with silver" and causes the stars to hide their faces in one poem, and, in another, claims to have "no embroidered headband from Sardis" to give to a girl "like a golden flower," instead recommending "a purple ribbon looped in the hai," Notably translated by H.T. Wharton and Mary Barnard, this poet of "The stars about the fair moon" becomes "paler than grass" and "in madness, little better than one dead" after lamenting, (*) "
{Sappho}