by Sappho
![Sappho](https://www.best-poems.net/files/imagecache/poet/category_pictures/Sappho.jpg "In antiquity, Sappho was commonly regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets. The surviving proportion of the nine-volume corpus of poetry read in antiquity is small but still constitutes a poetic corpus of major importance. There is a single complete poem, Fragment 1, the Hymn to Aphrodite, quoted in its entirety as a model of the "polished and exuberant" style of composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, with admiration of its consummate artistry. Here are some of her best poems translations in english and some of her famous poems and hymns to Aphrodite. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.")
I've a garden, a garden of dreams,
Where the cool breeze whispering sways
Softly the apple-sprays,
And from leaves that shimmer and quiver
Down on mine eyelids streams
A slumber-river.
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Last updated January 14, 2019
My Garden
Last updated January 14, 2019