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Sapho - Recueil de poèmes

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SAPHO<br />

« Par un soir brûlant <strong>de</strong> rubis et d'opales<br />

Elle te dira <strong>de</strong>s mots las et brisés,<br />

Et tu connaîtras ses lèvres nuptiales,<br />

Pâles <strong>de</strong> baisers. »<br />

Saw the white implacable Aphrodite,<br />

Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled<br />

Shine as fire of sunset on western waters;<br />

Saw the reluctant<br />

Feet, the stra!ning plumes of the doves that drew her,<br />

Looking always, looking with necks reverted,<br />

Back to Lesbos, back to the hills whereun<strong>de</strong>r<br />

Shone Mitylene;<br />

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