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" Peer of Gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who sits and gazes at thee before him, Close beside thee sits, and in silence hears thee Silverly speaking, Laughing love's low laughter. Oh this, this only Stirs the troubled heart in my breast to tremble!... "
Selections from Latin Poets: With Brief Notes - Page 6
1897 - 78 pages
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From Milton to Tennyson: Masterpieces of English Poetry

Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 508 pages
...sentiment and rhythm may be gained from the following translation (Symonds) of her Ode to Anactoria. Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh impalpable fire runs tingling;...
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The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis ..., Volume 2

Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 466 pages
...more to ease my woe ! Grant all ! and thy great self bestow, My shield and guide ! ODE TO ANACTORIA. PEER of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed ; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh impalpable fire runs tingling...
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The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of ..., Part 3

Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 566 pages
...more to ease my woe ! Grant all ! and thy great self bestow, My shield and guide ! ODE TO ANACTORIA. PEER of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed ; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh impalpable fire runs tingling;...
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Aegean Days

James Irving Manatt - Andros (Greece : Municipality) - 1914 - 480 pages
...illustrate he quotes the famous ode * which Symonds has thus reproduced in the Poetess' own measures : Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed ; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh impalpable fire runs tingling;...
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Hellenic Civilization

George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler - History - 1915 - 758 pages
...share in what was once shared is better than to forget it. E. A LOVE SONG (Translated by JA Symonds) Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed ; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh impalpable fire runs tingling...
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Hellenic Civilization

George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler - History - 1915 - 780 pages
...share in what was once shared is better than to forget it. E. A LOVE SONG (Translated by JA Symonds) Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...troubled heart in my breast to tremble! For should I but sec thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed ; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through...
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Greek Literary Criticism

John Dewar Denniston - Criticism - 1924 - 276 pages
...with which she selects and binds together the most striking and vehement circumstances of passion: — Peer of Gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh impalpable fire runs tingling;...
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The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a ...

Sappho, Edwin Marion Cox - Greek poetry - 1925 - 168 pages
...pale I grow; and then together fail A later and a better translation is that by JA Symonds in 1883. I Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...sits, and in silence hears thee Silverly speaking, ii Laughing Love's low laughter. Oh this, this only Stirs the troubled heart in my breast to tremble....
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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

Lawrence Lipking - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 329 pages
...English A relatively Swinburnian translation of the Second Ode was performed by JA Symonds (1883): Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh, impalpable fire runs tingling;...
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Victorian Sappho

Yopie Prins - History - 1999 - 298 pages
...of fragment 31 he tries to recreate the sublime effect of a rhythmically ordered poem (Wharton 69) : Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Man who...thee a little moment, Straight is my voice hushed; Yea, my tongue is broken, and through and through me 'Neath the flesh, impalpable fire runs tingling;...
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