Sappho

A book I read last month (Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, by Thomas Cahill) discussed ancient Greek poetry, and this poem - or poem fragment - by Sappho caught my eye.

Δεδυκε μεν α σελαννα
και Πληιαδες, μεσαι δε
νυκτες, παρα δ' ερχετ' ωρα,
εγω δε μονα κατευδω.

The sinking moon has left the sky,
The Pleiades have also gone.
Midnight comes--and goes, the hours fly
And solitary still, I lie.

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