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Sappho to Eranna

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Summary

I want you filled with agitation;

Shaken like a vine-choked stave.

Like death, I crave your penetration.

I want to pass you, like the grave,

With all these things, to all creation.

Sappho an Alkaïos

Fragment

Und was hättest du mir denn zu sagen,

und was gehst du meine Seele an,

wenn sich deine Augen niederschlagen

vor dem nahen Nichtgesagten? Mann,

sieh, uns hat das Sagen dieser Dinge

hingerissen und bis in den Ruhm.

Wenn ich denke: unter euch verginge

dürftig unser süßes Mädchentum,

welches wir, ich Wissende und jene

mit mir Wissenden, vom Gott bewacht,

trugen unberührt, daß Mytilene

wie ein Apfelgarten in der Nacht

duftete vom Wachsen unsrer Brüste —.

Ja, auch dieser Brüste, die du nicht

wähltest wie zu Fruchtgewinden, Freier

mit dem weggesenkten Angesicht.

Geh und laß mich, daß zu meiner Leier

komme, was du abhältst: alles steht.

Dieser Gott ist nicht der Beistand Zweier,

aber wenn er durch den Einen geht —————————

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New Poems , pp. 11 - 12
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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