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                    <title type="main" level="a">The Ode to Aphrodite by Sappho</title>
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                          2019  
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                    <publisher>University of Nebraska-Lincoln</publisher>
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                            Fragments of Sappho
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                            <addrLine>216 Burnett</addrLine>
                            <addrLine>University of Nebraska-Lincoln</addrLine>
                            <addrLine>Lincoln, NE 68588</addrLine>
                            <addrLine>janica.hw@gmail.com</addrLine>
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                       2019 
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                            Copyright © 2019 by University of Nebraska–Lincoln, all rightsreserved. Redistribution or republication in any medium, except as allowedunder the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law, requires expresswritten consent from the editors and advance notification of the publisher,the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 
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                        Henry T. Wharton (1920). Sappho - Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings. With Paraphrases in verse by Anne Bunner.
                        <title level="a">Sappho - Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings</title>
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                        <author>Henry T. Wharton</author>
                        <author role="Paraphraser">Anne Bunner</author>
                        <author role="Translator">Ambrose Philips</author>
                        <author role="Translator">Herbert</author>
                        <author role="Translator">John H. Merivale</author>
                        <author role="Translator">T. W. Higginson</author>
                        <author role="Translator">Moreton J. Walhouse</author>
                        <author role="Translator">J. A. Symonds</author>
                        <date when="1920">1920</date>
                        <publisher>BRENTANO'S</publisher>
                        <pubPlace>New York</pubPlace>
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                        <p>Literal translation to English by Henry Thorton Wharton, paraphrases in verse form by Anne Bunner referencing various translationed editions of the poem included in the book. All name would be written as fill first name, initial of middle name, and full last name, unless unavailable.</p>
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            <head>THE ODE TO APHRODITE</head>
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                    <l n="1" enjamb="no">Aphrodite -- Thou, oh, most subtle-minded</l>
                    <l n="2" enjamb="no">Child of Zeus, and weaver of wiles bewildering,</l>
                    <l n="3" enjamb="no">Break not thou my spirit with love and longing,</l>
                    <l n="4" enjamb="no" rend="indent(50px)">Oh, Aphrodite!</l>
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                    <l n="5" enjamb="no">Ah, I called thee often and thou didst harken,</l>
                    <l n="6" enjamb="yes">Came from afar, fair skies with thy chariot drawn by</l>
                    <l n="7" enjamb="no">Fair, fleet swallows, bearing thee down from heaven,</l>
                    <l n="8" enjamb="no" rend="indent(50px)">Hither to aide me.</l>
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                <lg type="stanza" n="3">
                    <l n="9" enjamb="yes">Come thou now -- ah, yea -- I can see thee coming</l>
                    <l n="10" enjamb="no">Swift to answer me, and thou asketh gently:</l>
                    <l n="11" enjamb="no">"Why dost thou now call to me, oh beloved one,</l>
                    <l n="12" enjamb="no" rend="indent(50px)">Thou, my sweet servant?</l>
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                    <l n="13" enjamb="no">"What thy mad heart asks of me, I will grant thee.</l>  
                    <l n="14" enjamb="no">Sweet and strange are the ways of love, and subtle!</l>
                    <l n="15" enjamb="no">What new beauty findest thou that thou desirest?</l>
                    <l n="16" enjamb="no" rend="indent(50px)">Sappho, who wrongs thee?</l>
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                <lg type="stanza" n="5">
                    <l n="17" enjamb="no">"Is it one who flies? Ah, she soon shall follow,</l>
                    <l n="18" enjamb="no">Follow thee and beg for the gifts she would not.</l>
                    <l n="19" enjamb="no">Loves she not? Ah, Sappho, she soon shall love thee</l>
                    <l n="20" enjamb="no" rend="indent(50px)">Broken with longing.</l>
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