COLLECTED POEMS
It's but a name; and this will be as long
As there are distant ships that will return
Again to your Naucratis and the Nile.
VI
The Dust of Timas
(Sappho)
This dust was Timas; and they say
That almost on her wedding day
She found her bridal home to be
The dark house of Persephone.
And many maidens, knowing then
That she would not come back again,
Unbound their curls ; and all in tears,
They cut them off with sharpened shears.
VII
Aretemias
(Antipater of Sidon)
I'm sure I see it all now as it was,
When first you set your foot upon the shore
Where dim Oocytus flows for evermore,
And how it came to pass
That all those Dorian women who are there
In Hades, and still fair,
Came up to you, so young, and wept and smiled
When they beheld you and your little child.
And then, I'm sure, with tears upon your face
To be in that sad place,
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