A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

RCH noticed we have yet to taste test any poetry. She seeks to remedy that by sending us the forty-second page of “A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now” (edited by Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone). This page features a poem written by Sappho (believed to have been born between 630 & 612 B.C. and died ca. 570 B.C.), which, as translated, reads (emphasis & hyperlinks added):

Someone, I tell you,
will remember us.
We are oppressed by
fears of oblivion
yet are always saved
by judgment of good men.

Now in my
heart I
see clearly
a beautiful
face
shining,
etched by love.

Andromeda
forgot,
and I too
blamed you,
yet Sappho,
I loved you.
In Kypros I am Queen
and to you a power
as sun of fire
is a glory to all.
Even in Hades
I am with you.

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