My Garden

  by: Sappho (c. 610-570 B.C.)

    translated by Arthur S. Way


 

I've a garden, a garden of dreams,

 

Where the cool breeze whispering sways
Softly the apple-sprays,

 

And from leaves that shimmer and quiver
Down on mine eyelids streams
A slumber-river.


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