Sappho Poems - Poems about Sappho

...Preposterous Eros by Michael R. Burch “Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga Preposterous Eros shot me in the buttocks, with a Devilish grin, spent all my money in a rush then left my heart......Read the rest...

...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I hate. I love. You ask, 'Why not refrain?' I wish I could explain. I can't, ......Read the rest...

...Poems for Poets X Poems about Poets X Sinking by Michael R. Burch for Virginia Woolf Weigh me down with stones ... fill all the pockets of my gown ... I’m going down, ......Read the rest...

...These are my modern English translations/interpretations of ancient Greek poems by the immortal Sappho of Lesbos… With my two small arms, how can I think to encircle the sky? —Sappho, fragment 3......Read the rest...

...Sappho Translations II That country wench bewitches your heart? Hell, her most beguiling art’s hiking her dress to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness! Sappho, fragment 57, loose translation......Read the rest...

...Sappho Translations I Sappho, fragment 132 (Lobel-Page 132) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I have a delightful daughter fairer than the fairest flowers, Cleis, whom......Read the rest...

...A 6th century poet Sappho wrote verse on the Isle of Lesbo Creating a genre called Saphics the of which stil exists......Read the rest...

... Would that this poet were in Greece! Her heart enchanted on its sunlit sands. Her lover, kissing her porcelain hands. His eyes, deep, dark as Kalmata olives. The homes, white, with br......Read the rest...

...Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams That country wench bewitches your heart? Hell, her most beguiling art’s hiking her dress to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness! Sappho, fragment 57, loose t......Read the rest...

...Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms; hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches; then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fou......Read the rest...

...WILDE had a mirror that mocked the ugliness and deified the beauty... Whitman had the pure mirror of the waters with that exalted natu......Read the rest...

...happiness wets me as in torture, drip by drip, dropwise... impossible to drink the sea... how impossible is to coun......Read the rest...

...Wilde had a mirror that mocked ugliness and divinized beauty ... Whitman had the pure mirror of the waters with that exalted naturalnes......Read the rest...

...POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cher......Read the rest...

...I’m not some filthy **** who calls your poems a joke; I like them. But here’s advice, take it or ignore it: You lard a poem with myths that weigh it down; half the young no longer know ......Read the rest...