Forever Dead

  by: Sappho (c. 610-570 B.C.)

    translated by William Ellery Leonard


 

Death shall be death forever unto thee,
Lady, with no remembrance of thy name
Then or thereafter; for thou gatherest not
The roses of Pieria, loving gold
Above the Muses, Even in Hades' House
Wander thou shalt unmarked, flitting forlorn
Among the shadowy, averted dead.


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