Sappho Mother, darling, I cannot work the loom Mother, darling, I cannot work the loom for sweet Kypris has almost crushed me, broken me with love for a slender boy. Greek; trans. Willis Barnstone Sappho, Greek, trans. Willis Barnstone. Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)
Mother, darling, I cannot work the loom
Mother, darling, I cannot work the loom for sweet Kypris has almost crushed me, broken me with love for a slender boy. Greek; trans. Willis Barnstone
Sappho, Greek, trans. Willis Barnstone.