Best Beseechers Poems

KISS THE RAIN
(anguish of a flood survivor)
                            
Distinguish,I can't,between raindrops and tears,
For my face now is a tragedy,carved...

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Waves of the sea deep down in my heart
rage side by side with puff of twilight wind
it trembles my whole body embraced by the sunset
Lord...
more than the amount of the sands of the shore
more than the sacred hymn of angels
more than the crying so loudly...

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Sappho Translations IX


Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazzling kings who did such amazing things,
first at Troy, then later at sea.
And yet, sailing the sea-road to our island,
those...

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