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. 138.

V. FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO

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XXXIIDio Chrysostom, the celebrated Greek rhetorician, writing about 100 A. D., observes that Sappho says this “with perfect beauty.”

Men I think will remember us even hereafter.

Compare Swinburne’s —

Thou art more than I
Though my voice die not till the whole world
die.

and —

Memories shall mix and metaphors of me.

and —

I Sappho shall be one with all these things,
With all high things for ever.

ANACTORIA.

V. FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO

XXXIIDio Chrysostom, the celebrated Greek rhetorician, writing about 100 A. D., observes that Sappho says this “with perfect beauty.”

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