ANCIENT GREEK POETRY TRANSLATED ΙΝ ENGLISH

Athida (Ατθίδα)

Translation of Sappho’s lovely poem

Sappho (on the right) and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, by
Simeon Solomon (1840–1905).

Like a wind Love shook my thoughts
like the wind that bends mountain oak trees

You came, I’m glad you did, I longed for you
you cooled my little soul from the burning of lust