......
Your sweet voice
Your whisper, so tempting.
The flute breaks my heart.
Slap violently. if I ... ...
When I suddenly meet you, I will
Speechless-my tongue
Stiff, flame under my skin.
Flow, I can't see anything
I only hear my eardrum.
Rumbling and sweating all over.
My body is shaking.
I am better than withered grass.
That's even paler
I'm dying.
In the above poem, Sappho vividly reproduces the uncontrollable secret excitement at the moment of meeting love by using the image elements such as hearing, sight, taste and touch. This description, even today, is still a beautiful poem!
Watch another song:
Tonight I watch
moon
Pleiades seven stars
Successive ups and downs
The night will end.
Youth is gone.
I'm alone.
Lie stiff in bed
-"I watch tonight"
The seven Pleiades mentioned in the poem belong to Taurus constellation. In Greece, every time the seven stars fall into the sky, it is the winter moon. This poem is concise in words and superimposed in images. While describing the moon and the setting of the seven stars in the west, the time is fixed on "the night will be over" and "the youth is gone", which fully shows the poet's lonely and sad mood at that time. What is particularly touching is the last two sentences of the poem: I am lying alone/stiff in bed. It is heartbreaking to read.
From the preserved poems, we can see that Sappho wrote many poems praising God, but she is mainly a poet who sings for love.