Attis Poems - Poems about Attis

...When Attis, in guise of maiden fair, did sing Unto her comrades, lo, the thiasus stirred! A cacophony of voices quivering, The delicate tambourine, it did swell With resonance, and hollow cymba......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 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...

...All shall sing of Attis As the moon of Rhea And not with bells’ thunder And not with a wind flute All shall sing, all shall sing As shepherd of the stars As heaven’s crescent moon Date: ......Read the rest...

...Sappho fragment #2 translation by Michael R. Burch How can I compete with that damned man who fancies himself one of the gods, impressing you with his "eloquence" ... when just the thought of ......Read the rest...

...Our English Rose by Michael R. Burch for Christine Ena Burch The rose is— the ornament of the earth, the glory of nature, the archetype of the flowers, the blush of the meadows, a lightni......Read the rest...

...Sappho, fragment 118 loose translation by Michael R. Burch Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre; come, let my words accompany your voice. "Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is appare......Read the rest...

...“the most famous man who ever lived” hollow is the story of “jesus”--- hollow like the stamp with which it was printed, hollow as these other mythical hero archetypes, which all bear a supernatura......Read the rest...