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Before They Were Mothers

by Sappho

Sappho

Before they were mothers
Leto and Niobe
had been the most
devoted of friends




Quotes of the Day

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
• Plato


Poems of the Day
  • Conrad Aiken
    Evening Song Of Senlin
    by Conrad Aiken
    from Senlin: A Biography It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves, remote in a pale blue starlight, Crash on a white sand shore.