Atthis Loves Another | A Tribute to Sappho

Painting of a Depressed Woman

Parnassus was the prize.

She breezed, I struggled.

Soon I will be so very old

and now Atthis loves another.

"Go to her," I said and still I hoped;

but she stays silent.

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This poem is part of the collection of poems Sappho