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Sappho : a new translation

Author
Sappho.
Preferred Title
Works. Selections. English. 1958
Title
Sappho : a new translation / by Mary Barnard ; foreword by Dudley Fitts.
Format
Book
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1958.
Description
x, 114 p. ; 19 cm.
Other contributors
Barnard, Mary, 1909-2001
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]) and index. Also issued online.
Contents
  • Tell everyone
  • We shall enjoy it
  • Standing by my bed
  • I asked myself
  • And I said
  • I confess
  • At noontime
  • I took my lyre and said
  • Although they are
  • That afternoon
  • We heard them chanting
  • It's no use
  • People do gossip
  • Peace reigned in heaven
  • When I saw Eros
  • You are the herdsman of evening
  • Sleep, darling
  • Although clumsy
  • Tomorrow you had better
  • We put the urn aboard ship
  • Cyprian, in my dream
  • In the spring twilight
  • And their feet move
  • Awed by her splendor
  • Now, while we dance
  • The evening star
  • It is time now
  • For her sake
  • Hymen hymenaon!
  • We drink your health
  • Bridesmaids' carol I
  • Bridesmaids' carol II
  • They're locked in, oh!
  • Lament for a maidenhead
  • You wear her livery
  • Why am I crying?
  • You know the place: then
  • Prayer to my lady of Paphos
  • He is more than a hero
  • Yes, Atthis, you may be sure
  • To an army wife, in Sardis
  • I have had not one word from her
  • It was you, Atthis, who said
  • Without warning
  • If you will come
  • Thank you, my dear
  • I was so happy
  • Now I know why Eros
  • She was dressed well
  • But you, monkey face
  • I was proud of you, too
  • After all this
  • With his venom
  • Afraid of losing you
  • It is clear now
  • Day in, day out
  • You will say
  • Tell me
  • I said, Sappho
  • You may forget but
  • Pain penetrates
  • The nightingale's
  • Last night
  • Tonight I've watched
  • Persuasion
  • Many's the time
  • At my age
  • That was different
  • This way, that way
  • My lovely friends
  • I ask you, sir, to
  • Of course I love you
  • Yes, it is pretty
  • I hear that Andromeda
  • Well!
  • Sappho, when some fool
  • Strange to say
  • I taught the talented
  • Really, Gorgo
  • As you love me
  • Greetings to Gorgo
  • Rich as you are
  • Don't ask me what to wear
  • If you are squeamish
  • Before they were mothers
  • Experience shows us
  • We know this much
  • Say what you please
  • Then the god of war
  • As for the exiles
  • In memory
  • Do you remember
  • Be kind to me
  • You remind me
  • When they were tired
  • The gods bless you
  • I have often asked you
  • It is the Muses
  • Must I remind you, Cleis
  • I have no complaint
  • A footnote to these translations.
Subject headings
Sappho--Translations into English.
Kinsey subjects
Homosexuality--Female. Literature.
ISBN
0520223128 9780520223127 0520011171 9780520011175

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
881 S26 s2 1958
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute