“Desire, limb-trembler, heart-trapper,”
— Sappho, tr. by Josephine Balmer, from Women Poets; “Artemis’ Oath,”
Tag: sappho
Sappho Lobel-Page 147, transl. Anne Carson
“Again love, the limb-loosener, rattles me
bittersweet,
irresistible,
a crawling beast.”— Sappho, Fragment 15 (tr. by Julia Dubnoff)
Misses Blount c.1900 (photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston)
Music by Adolphe Rivet, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Bronze, struck, light brown patina
yes.
clipped from sappho: lives of notable gay men and lesbians by jane mcintosh snyder, 1995
written by plato and translated by lord neaves, published in the baltimore sun, january 1922
Rudolph Tegner (Dk. 1873-1950)
Two women
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