The Bibelot

VOLUME I

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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number V, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; p. 134.

V. FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO

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IIIQuoted by Eustathius of Thessalonica, late in the twelfth century to illustrate the simile in the Iliad, VIII, 551:
    As when in heaven the stars
        About the moon
    Look beautiful.

                            TENNYSON.

The stars about the fair moon in their turn hide their bright face when she at about her full lights up all earth with silver.

The stars about the lovely moon
Fade back and vanish very soon,
When, round and full, her silver face
Swims into sight, and lights all space.

EDWIN ARNOLD, 1869.

Stars that shine around the refulgent full moon
Pale, and hide their glory of lesser lustre
When she pours out her silvery plenilunar
Light on the orbed earth.

J. A. SYMONDS, 1883.

V. FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO

IIIQuoted by Eustathius of Thessalonica, late in the twelfth century to illustrate the simile in the Iliad, VIII, 551: As when in heaven the stars About the moon Look beautiful. TENNYSON.

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IIIQuoted by Eustathius of Thessalonica, late in the twelfth century to illustrate the simile in the Iliad, VIII, 551:
As when in heaven the stars
About the moon
Look beautiful.

TENNYSON.