Page:Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia.djvu/32

 :The lamp has failed amid the glimmering dusk
 * Of midnight; and now even music sounds
 * Mournful as evening bells on seas unknown.


 * O, Lesbos waits, and still you will not come—
 * Our home is calling, and you will not hear?


 * Out of my time I am, and like a bird
 * On nor’land wings too early flown, I dream
 * Amid the wintry cold of all the world
 * Of dawns and summer rains I ne’er shall see! …
 * Lightly you loved me, Phaon, long ago,
 * And there were other arms unknown to me
 * That folded over you, though none more fond
 * Than mine that fell so wing-like round your head.
 * And there were other eyes that drooped as mine
 * Despairingly before your pleading mouth;
 * And many were the nights I wept, and learned
 * How sorrowful is all divided love,
 * Since one voice must be lost, and being lost,
 * Is then remembered most.


 * But you alone
 * It was, pale-throated woman, that I loved:
 * Through outland countries have I seen your eyes,
 * And like a tender flow’r through perilous ways
 * Your face has gone before me, and your voice
 * Across dim meadows and mysterious seas
 * Has drawn me to you, calling from the dunes