1. Home »
  2. World Poets »
  3. Sappho

Cyprian, in my dream

by Sappho

Sappho

Cyprian, in my dream
the folds of a purple
kerchief shadowed
your cheeks -- the one
Timas one time sent,
a timid gift, all
the way from Phocaea




Quotes of the Day

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
• Norman Wisdom


Poems of the Day
  • Charles Bukowski
    My Groupie
    by Charles Bukowski
    I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4's finished when I heard a long high scream and a quite attractive young girl came running toward me